Agreed, I use it when I'm stuck using a corporate mandated windoze 
laptop or servers for win-only apps.  I've found it quite helpful in 
that circumstance, even to the point I'd keep it on a default win server 
image I deploy out via template.  That was about the time I switched to 
linux full-time and never looked back.

-mb


On 03/14/2012 06:35 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
> I personally support Cygwin and (to a point) like it, but I don't ever
> use it unless I have NO OTHER POSSIBLE OPTION whatsoever...
> For example, for some reason my Linux box quit connecting to my daytime
> job VPN and I installed a SSH server using Cygwin so I can create a
> reverse tunnel and access the AIX server and Linux boxes I actually do
> stuff with.
> ET
>
>
> Michael Butash writes:
>> Cygwin won't give you ifconfig or ip tools (didn't years back at
>> least), it'll still be "ipconfig /all"
>> Look at the subnet mask there, should be 255.255.255.0. If they're all
>> on the same switch/router, than they're in the same subnet.
>> Can they ping each other's addresses? layer 3 is good
>> Telnet to each other on port 445 "telnet 192.168.0.x 445" layer 4 is good
>> From windoze, "start->run-> type "\\192.168.0.x\" and see if you can
>> see shares. Try more specifically if you know the share name.
>> If you want to test from linux back install smbfs packages
>> (specifically for cifs) and mount as:
>> mkdir /tmp/cifs
>> mount -t cifs -o defaults,username=myuser //192.168.0.x/share_name
>> /tmp/cifs
>> Layer 5 and up should be good if you can do the last, otherwise figure
>> out where in between the problem lies. Try in both directions too.
>> It's more than likely with samba config, not the network. Though I'm
>> not at all sure what that 5.5.6.1 address was you were looking at...
>> -mb
>>
>> On 03/14/2012 05:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>> well, I figured I would d/l something so if you tell me how to do
>>> something in *nix I wouldn't have to ask you how to do it in windows. So
>>> I googled it and found 'cygwin'. so I install it and the first command I
>>> type in I am DENIED! File not found it says. So what is the best unix
>>> emulator for windows? 'ip addr show' is the command that wasn't found.
>>> --
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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