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Re: network installation problems (again)


Am 02.01.2016 um 09:21 schrieb D. Boland:
Thomas Wolff wrote:
Am 01.01.2016 um 09:44 schrieb D. Boland:
Thomas Wolff wrote:
Hi,
I am again having problems to install cygwin on a network drive. It's in the same network I had similar problems before:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-11/msg00034.html
which were then resolved after a while.
The client machines are now new, running Windows 7. Domain server is the old one. My description log of actions and popup errors is attached below. There was no way to install on the network. I could install to the C: drive and move that over to the network where it would then run.


Happy new year, y'all!

You shouldn't try to install Cygwin on a network share and execute it locally. That's like installing and running Linux on a Samba share.

If you want to use a single Cygwin distro on all computers in your network, you should install it on the target host, including the openssh daemon. Then on the client machines, you use Putty to log on to the host.
I need Cygwin on the network clients, not on a server (and this has been working for years, just with occasional install problems). Also (if I understand your first sentence correctly), I did not try to install centrally for client use, but to install on a client for that client's use, just on a network drive. And in fact that's the only option on that system which is a lab network and the local (C:) drives are cleared after each reboot.
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Thomas

So you're kind of hacking into your lab computers, right? :-) I noticed something in your original output:

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Fehler
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Directory H:\tmp does not exist, would you like me to create it?
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Ja   Nein
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And:

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Cygwin Setup
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Cannot open log file L:\TGI\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing
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OK
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That's strange. Setup tries to install on different disks. Does the network share change each time you log on?
No. Install target is in L:\TGI while H:\tmp is the temp directory for downloaded packages. I hope they don't interfere. I can try to put both on the same drive but I would be surprised if that makes a difference.
Thomas


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