RE: Cygwin mounts not available when logged in over network

["Polley Christopher W" <PolleyChristopherW at JohnDeere dot com>]

This sounds like a windows problem --

[warning: this is based on knowledge of NT4/W2KPro -- I don't know how valid
it is on 95/ME/...]

If someone else is logged in to the machine interactively, the shares that
that user has will be unavaliable to you -- you must map that drive manually
with the "net use" command --

i.e. from Bash,
$ net use z: \\\\scooby\homes

(net use doen't grok the //server/share format for UNC paths)

It seems that if the (GUI) interactive user (on the machine you are logged
into) has a share assigned to a device, you can't connect a different share
to that device (you can't connect q: to \\server2\share if a connection is
already made on Q: to \\server1\share) 

I'm not sure if you can connect to the same share on the in-use device,
though.


HTH,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bob Friesenhahn [SMTP:bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us]
> Sent:	Monday, June 03, 2002 8:02 PM
> To:	egor duda
> Subject:	Re: Cygwin mounts not available when logged in over network
> 
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, egor duda wrote:
> 
> > BF> Does anyone know the reason for this problem?  Is there a
> workaround?
> >
> > If your drive z: is mapped network drive it wouldn't be available from
> > other login sessions. This has nothing to do with cygwin, it's
> > restriction of windows. To check this, just try to start cmd.exe from
> > your ssh session and type 'dir z:\' there.
> >
> > You should use //host/share/ unc-style paths instead of drive letters.
> 
> Still no luck:
> 
> From a network login:
> 
>   % mount -s -b //scooby/homes /homes
>   mount: warning - /homes does not exist.
>   % mount
>   \\scooby\homes on /homes type system (binmode)
>   C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>   C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>   C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
>   Z: on /scooby type system (binmode)
>   c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
>   % ls -l /homes
>   /bin/ls: /homes: Permission denied
>   % id
>   uid=1006(bfriesen) gid=513(None)
>   groups=0(Everyone),513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users)
> 
> However, the 'ls -l' works fine from a console window.
> 
> Any more ideas
> 
> Bob
> ======================================
> Bob Friesenhahn
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> 
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