cygwin without an install?

[rodmant@sol.net]

What impact should we expect if we run cygwin binaries 
without running the installation.  Our goal would be to 
allow our (non-unix literate) users to run some basic 
shell scripts, while avoiding install, upgrade, and 
configuration issues.

For example, if after a single install of cygwin, we copy 
the bin dir to a network drive.  Then we write scripts 
that 100 users run off the network drive.  (We realize 
that certain functionality may be lost.)

I've done some basic searching of the mail archives,
and found some users that prefered the "tarball" approach
to installing cygwin - sort of a simular issue.
 
Can anyone comment on the problems we will run into, and
how we might solve them?

  regards,
 
  Tom Rodman 
 
  Johnson Controls/ Milwaukee WI
  work: Tom.Rodman@jci.com
  home: rodmant@sol.net


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