Re: Win2k Telnet Server login issues (no XDM so gotta usesomething)

[Andrew Markebo <andrew dot markebo at comhem dot se>]

/ Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> 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
|
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