Win2k Telnet Server login issues (no XDM so gotta use something)

[Harold L Hunt II]

Did I miss something?  What is going on here?

Harold

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