Re: Cygwin/xFree from 2 users

[Jim Scheef <jscheef at yahoo dot com>]

Alexander and all,

I guess I wasn't clear. I'm sitting at my notebook looking at the XP login
screen. If I log in using js@domainname, Xwin works fine, but fails to start
when I log on using js@machinename. The machine and the Cygwin/Xfree
installation are one and the same in both cases. I use the same username (js)
in both cases for convenience and I was hoping that this would make it easy
to use the same Cygwin home directory (/home/js) for both logins. How can I
make this work?

Jim


--- Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Jim Scheef wrote:
> 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I use a notebook computer so I can carry my computing environment around.
> > This is WinXP and current versions of Cygwin and xFree as of a few weeks
> ago.
> > 
> > I have several user 'accounts' that belong to various domains. Most of
> these
> > accounts are 'js', as in js@machinename, js@domain1.com, js@domain2.org,
> etc.
> > I want all of these to use the same Cygwin home directory.
> > 
> > Cygwin and X were installed from js@domain1.com. When I'm not connected
> to a
> > network, I use js@machinename. Cygwin seems to work with both user
> accounts
> > but X will not start from js@machinename. The attached xwin.log came from
> > running xinit. Trying to start kde gives an error that there is no write
> > access to .ICEauthority. I believe the X problem is related to
> permissions
> > within /home/js. 
> > 
> > I have tried to set up permissions for both user accounts on /home/js but
> I
> > can't seem to make them stick. 
> > 
> > What permissions are needed? What file permissions are critical, which
> mearly
> > convenient? Does the setup process replace the permissions on the user's
> home
> > directory? How can Cygwin and X be configured for multiple users on a
> > machine? and the big question - how can I configure Cygwin and X so that
> I
> > can use the same /home/js directory from multiple 'js' accounts?
> 
> You can not start two xservers with the same display number (which is in
> fact the
> TCP/IP port used). Start the second with an additional parameter ":1". eg
> XWin :1
> or xinit -- :1
> 
> bye
> 	ago
> -- 
>  Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de 
>  http://www.gotti.org           ICQ: 126018723
>  Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 - 6. und 7. März 2004
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