Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

2011-12-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/16/2011 11:46 AM, Jon Clugston wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 12/15/2011 07:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I'm having difficulty seeing how what you have described could work unless the consumers of these files are looking for symlinks only, which y

Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

2011-12-16 Thread Jon Clugston
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 12/15/2011 07:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> >> I'm having difficulty seeing how what you have described could work unless >> the consumers of these files are looking for symlinks only, which your >> example above contradicts.  And

Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

2011-12-16 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/15/2011 07:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I'm having difficulty seeing how what you have described could work unless the consumers of these files are looking for symlinks only, which your example above contradicts. And both of the ".bashrc" files are registering as plain files, so I t

Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

2011-12-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/15/2011 6:47 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 12/14/2011 2:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 12/14/2011 12:14 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Might CYGWIN=winsymlinks help? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html I don't see how. I think that I need the .lnk portion o

Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

2011-12-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/14/2011 2:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 12/14/2011 12:14 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Might CYGWIN=winsymlinks help? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html I don't see how. I think that I need the .lnk portion of the file. It's not clear to me from that lin

Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

2011-12-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/14/2011 12:14 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Might CYGWIN=winsymlinks help? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html I don't see how. I think that I need the .lnk portion of the file. It's not clear to me from that link's description that setting winsymlinks give

RE: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

2011-12-14 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Jeremy Bopp sent the following at Wednesday, December 14, 2011 3:01 PM >On 12/14/2011 01:33 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> I like having only one home directory. It's extremely convenient to have >> the same settings and the like both when on Cygwin and when on Linux. >> >> Often home directories are

Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

2011-12-14 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/14/2011 01:33 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I like having only one home directory. It's extremely convenient to have > the same settings and the like both when on Cygwin and when on Linux. > > Often home directories are on NAS's and the like and served out via smb. > > Somewhere along the lin