On 27 November 2011 10:37, gabier wrote: > I got sshd to work between a Windows 7 computer and a FreeNAS/FreeBSD > server, and it works well now, thanks to you here. Now I try to implement > the same thing on a Vista laptop which is in the same home network. I > installed the same Cygwin, following the same howto.
Which howto? The author of that should probably be your first port of call. > But there are unexpected problems. > 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. > The mintty console opens in /cygdrive/c/Users/username/Desktop/FREENAS, > which is merely the link to the icon used to open the console. I created a > home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it. But mintty still > opens in its own link directory. > Cygwin commands work though. I could excecute all file and permissions > commands. How did you install mintty, and how are you invoking it? If you invoke it without arguments, it'll run your shell as a so-called non-login shell (as is standard behaviour for terminal emulators). This means that /etc/profile won't be sourced, which is where your home directory gets created and cd'd to. To tell mintty to invoke the shell as a login shell and hence source /etc/profile, pass a '-' (i.e. a hyphen/minus sign) as the last argument. That's what the mintty shortcut created by setup.exe does. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
