Re: Shared Network install accessible by multiple users

2002-10-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Brian, There is no reason why this shouldn't work (unless you use some special type of drive, such as a samba share). I would guess you'd want to keep /tmp and /var on a local disk on each machine, but you should be able to share /bin, /lib and /usr (even in read-only mode). /etc might be a bit

Shared Network install accessible by multiple users

2002-10-21 Thread Brian Murphy
I want to install cygwin on a shared network drive so that there is a reduced overhead in maintaining it. There will be multiple users creating instances of the cygwin shell on their Windows 2000 machines. Does anyine have an opinion on this shared installation whether it is a good or bad idea. H