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Re: Mount UNC path different user
On 12/2/2018 12:09 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, john doe!
>
>> How can I do the following on Cygwin?:
>
>
>> /sbin/mount.cifs //server/share /mount-point -o user=different-user
>
>> In other words, how can I mount a windows share with a specific user ?
>
> You can't. Cygwin is not a kernel module, it's a userspace program, and Cygwin
> mounts are bind mounts.
>
> net use \\server\share /user:chosen\user *
>
> Then you can use Cygwin mount to place the shared directory wherever you want.
>
Thank you, looks like I forgot that Cygwin is on Windows! :)
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