Achim Gratz writes: > Henry S. Thompson writes: >> But if I come in to this machine via ssh (public key or password), the >> virtual partitions are lost: > > That's how Windows is designed. If you have no desktop session, then > none of the associated setups are triggered.
Not to dismiss your point, but this happens even when there _is_ a desktop session. Indeed the material showing the problem in my previous post came from doing > [show working stuff from desktop session] > ssh localhost > [show failing stuff from ssh session] That's what really baffled me. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple