Re: Cygwin-Xfree for XDM clients

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:40:10PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Rasjid wrote:
>
>> I have basically got a XDM client up with nothing but cygwin1.dll,
>> cygz.dll and XWin.exe. 
>> 
>> 
>> How does one tell the cygwin dll what directory to use for tmp if cygwin
>> has never actually been installed?  (ie, preferably from a batch file /
>> environment variable etc)  Or am I required to do a minimal cygwin
>> install?
>> 
>either via the registry key
>REGEDIT4
>
>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/tmp]
>"native"="c:\\temp"
>"flags"=dword:00000000
>
>or by using the mount utility. I think you won't need to install all 
>the cygwin utilities and you can place mount.exe on the central server and 
>export it via smb. Than you have to call 
>mount -b 'c:\temp' /tmp 

If you edit the registry yourself, you are really really asking for trouble.

It is bad advice to suggest that people play with the registry, especially 
when a simple tool like mount exists.  The 'mount' suggestion is the correct
way to handle this.

cgf