/ Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Did I miss something? What is going on here?
He wants to serve a bumch of X-terminals from a NT-machine.. (running X-server on the NT machine, and show NT-sessions on the terminals) msg, sorry, I don't think NT's telnetdeamon does mount drives and so on, give cygwin's (rshd/sshd/telnetd) a try, and read the faq how to get it mount the drives.. and check the cygwin mailinglist, well discussed question.. maybe even the faq.. /Andy p.s. sorry for short answ. sitting with 4 day kid on stomach.... | msg wrote: |> Greetings: |> X-terminals will need to connect to the Win2k box using something |> other than XDM (until it works) so one must consider telnet or |> rsh. The native windows telnet daemon is supposed to set |> environment vars HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH which can then be used |> by the system login script %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\LOGIN.CMD however |> in my tests they are not set for any user although the var |> USERNAME is. |> One could easily write a script to search \cygwin\etc\passwd |> or otherwise use the USERNAME var to determine user specific |> paths, etc. but I'd like the native facility to work first. |> A search of Usenet archives shows this to be a problem in an |> addon package for NT4 but I didn't find any reference to the |> problem in Win2k. |> Anyone else encountered this? |> Michael Grigoni |> Cybertheque Museum | | -- The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. - Andrew Tanenbaum, OS?