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Re: Access to network disks after ssh login


You can probably also (I haven't tested this) run:
net use '*' '\\PHONCS0\ipc$' /user:phoncs
mount /mountpoint //phoncs0/phoncs

HTH,
-ME

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Haggerty" <haggerty@bnl.gov>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Access to network disks after ssh login


> Again, thanks for the hints, which have sort of solved my problem.  It
> provided a fun introduction to the wild and wacky world of windows
> networking, which I have skated around in the past.  Corinna also had a
> relevant earlier posting:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-08/msg00421.html
>
> I would still say the behavior is bizarre.  If you map drive F: from
> explorer at the console, you don't seem to be able to reuse the letter
> F: again, ever, or at least until you've disconnected all the network
> drives and restarted sshd, maybe.  But, you can use some new letters!
>
> > net use
> New connections will be remembered.
>
>
> Status       Local     Remote                    Network
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----
> OK           I:        \\PHONCS0\phoncs          Microsoft Windows
> Network
> OK           J:        \\PHONCS0\phoncs          Microsoft Windows
> Network
> The command completed successfully.
>
> When it says new connections will be remembered, it's not kidding!  For
> the record,
>
> net use '*' '\\PHONCS0\phoncs' '*' /user:phoncs
>
> seems to usually get you reconnected, although specifying the drive
> letter explicitly (the first '*") usually fails with the message:
>
> The local device name is already in use.
>
> I can't see how to get these letters back--even if you disconnect at the
> console, it seems to me you need to reboot to recover drive letters.
> Still, it kinda works....
>
> > I know I always have a problem accessing network drives after logging in
> > using either telnet or ssh. How do you map your network drive letter? In
my
> > experience, you sometimes have to log in to the NT server from desktop
in
> > order to make drive letters work. Also, you may try to map drives
explicitly
> > using "net use F: /user:..." command once you logged in via ssh.
>
> John Haggerty wrote:
> >
> > I was so impressed by this list's answer's to yesterday's problems, so I
> > thought I'd try again today....
> >
> > So I am happy to be ssh'ing into my Windows NT machine, and using gnu
> > make to build all my programs without sitting in front of the machine.
> > Very cool.  (I haven't really succeeded in starting sshd as a service,
> > but I still have some more manual-thumbing to do there.)
> >
> > On the NT machine's console, I had set up a mapped network drive to a
> > Samba mounted disk on the Unix server, and made a link to it locally, as
> > in
> >
> > ln -s f:/foo localfoo
> >
> > and I could come and go to localfoo as I pleased.  However, at the bash
> > prompt (I made bash the shell), I get, alas,
> >
> > bash: cd: localfoo: Permission denied
> >
> > although I modified as many permissions as I could think of.  There's
> > lots of stuff at play here... Samba... the Unix server... the NT
> > security... Cygwin... any ideas on where to start?
> >
> > --
> > John Haggerty
> > internet: haggerty@bnl.gov
> > voice/fax: 631 344 2286/631 344 4592
> >
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>
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