Launching an X app and getting access to the local (win32) drives

[Steve]

Thanks alexander, I was thinking about that but thought there was some
mechanism in cygwin/X to do that. One more question on the topic:

Would it be better to just share a "cygwin/X access" folder on a local drive
and work through that?

Sharing the local drives on each user's windows workstation needs to be done
carefully or it could create a security issue. I guess this goes back to how
the user authenticates to the Linux server (samba, ldap, AD, etc.) and if
those credentials are the same from the client workstation to the linux
server.

Thanks,

Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Gottwald" <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>; "Steve" <searchit.sevenstory@verizon.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: Launching an X app and getting access to the local (win32)
drives


> 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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