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Re: Cygwin/xFree from 2 users
- From: Jim Scheef <jscheef at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:28:28 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin/xFree from 2 users
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Alexander and all,
I guess I wasn't clear. I'm sitting at my notebook looking at the XP login
screen. If I log in using js@domainname, Xwin works fine, but fails to start
when I log on using js@machinename. The machine and the Cygwin/Xfree
installation are one and the same in both cases. I use the same username (js)
in both cases for convenience and I was hoping that this would make it easy
to use the same Cygwin home directory (/home/js) for both logins. How can I
make this work?
Jim
--- Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Jim Scheef wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I use a notebook computer so I can carry my computing environment around.
> > This is WinXP and current versions of Cygwin and xFree as of a few weeks
> ago.
> >
> > I have several user 'accounts' that belong to various domains. Most of
> these
> > accounts are 'js', as in js@machinename, js@domain1.com, js@domain2.org,
> etc.
> > I want all of these to use the same Cygwin home directory.
> >
> > Cygwin and X were installed from js@domain1.com. When I'm not connected
> to a
> > network, I use js@machinename. Cygwin seems to work with both user
> accounts
> > but X will not start from js@machinename. The attached xwin.log came from
> > running xinit. Trying to start kde gives an error that there is no write
> > access to .ICEauthority. I believe the X problem is related to
> permissions
> > within /home/js.
> >
> > I have tried to set up permissions for both user accounts on /home/js but
> I
> > can't seem to make them stick.
> >
> > What permissions are needed? What file permissions are critical, which
> mearly
> > convenient? Does the setup process replace the permissions on the user's
> home
> > directory? How can Cygwin and X be configured for multiple users on a
> > machine? and the big question - how can I configure Cygwin and X so that
> I
> > can use the same /home/js directory from multiple 'js' accounts?
>
> You can not start two xservers with the same display number (which is in
> fact the
> TCP/IP port used). Start the second with an additional parameter ":1". eg
> XWin :1
> or xinit -- :1
>
> bye
> ago
> --
> Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
> http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
> Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 - 6. und 7. März 2004
> http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag
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