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Re: multi-user environment: mounting a lot of shares via ssh
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Andreas Petralia wrote:
> > Why not use the UNC path directly instead?
>
> because of the following reasons:
>
> 1.
>
> i want to make the home-directories available in the directory /HOMES:
> /HOMES/A, /HOMES/B, /HOMES/C, ...
> and i think it's not possible to link to a UNC path (eg. ln -s
> <UNC_path> /HOMES/A) is it?
It is possible.
> 2. not every binary (tool) can handle UNC-paths
Agreed :-(, but those tools are arguably broken.
> 3. i would like to set up an environment, where *unix*-scripts+tools do
> not have to know anything about UNC_paths.
Why would they?
And, as suggested in a later reply, use mount.
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