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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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