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Re: Launching an X app and getting access to the local (win32) drives
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, Steve <searchit dot sevenstory at verizon dot net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:28:34 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Launching an X app and getting access to the local (win32) drives
- References: <001601c514fd$ca3576b0$6401a8c0@tibet77>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Steve wrote:
> This is a newbie question....
>
> I have RH8 installed (actually in a VM under VMWare) and have installed the
> cygwin/X on a Windows 2000 Pro box. After some work getting the X
> configuration setup properly, from the cygwin bash shell, I am able to
> telnet into my linux box, export the display, and run all of the X apps
> correctly on the win32 machine.
>
> Before telnetting into linux, the bash shell can see the local win32 drives,
> but the telnet session (and the X application) can only see file space on
> the linux machine. How do I make the local win32 drives available to the X
> application?
export the drives as windows shares and use samba to access them.
bye
ago
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