Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040212211235.0393d918@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:17:13 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Cygwin homedirs and roaming profiles. Cc: "Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen" In-Reply-To: References: <20040213020029.G50567-100000@unity.copyleft.no> <6.0.1.1.0.20040212201250.03948c38@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:09 PM 2/12/2004, Igor Pechtchanski you wrote: >On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > >> At 08:08 PM 2/12/2004, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen you wrote: >> >Hi. >> > >> >I've been unable to find information on this in the documentation, the >> >FAQs and on the net: >> > >> >I have a situation where I want to use Cygwin in a multiuser >> >environment where users hop from one computer to the next, with roaming >> >profiles (stored on a Samba server). >> > >> >I have two problems: >> > >> >1) It appears domain users are stored in the local passwd file in a >> >"domain\user" format on each workstation. But each user has to run >> >Cygwin once to have this (and the homedir) set up. Are there neat ways >> >to do all this automaticly and correctly in my situation? >> >> This actually happens on installation, through postinstall scripts. So >> unless the installation happens through some method other than setup.exe >> (in which case it is unsupported ;-) ), these files should be on the >> local machine as part of the install. OK, I just wanted to correct any >> misconception you had about how and when these files are made. On to >> your question now. >> >> If the machines in question are always on the same domain (it sounds >> like they are), you can put the passwd and group files on a central >> server and have all the local machines just point to them via symlinks. > >Or just mount /etc (or even /etc/passwd and /etc/group) off a network >drive... OK, yeah. I was thinking of that variant when I mentioned the above but I didn't explicitly mention it. The "central server" doesn't have to be anything more than some shared folder somewhere on the network. Don't anybody go a buyin' a Windows server machine just for this! ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/