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RE: use a NAS-drive in cygwin
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:49:02 +0100
- Subject: RE: use a NAS-drive in cygwin
----Original Message----
>From: Christian Buhtz
>Sent: 22 September 2005 15:27
> I work with Win98se. There is a NAS (available per FTP and Samba).
>
> I want to access/mount the NAS in the cygwin filesystem to use it as a
> backup-destination.
>
> Is it possible?
Yes. You can use standard UNC notation to access it via SMB, although
don't forget to escape the backslashes if you're in the shell, or use
forward-slashes (cygwin-specific) instead. Example:
ls -lart //server/share/subdir/
cheers,
DaveK
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