Resolution: Re: Can't access windows shares when logged into Win2K via cygwin sshd

[Karsten M. Self]

on Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:08:13PM +0100, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> I've researched via Google and found a few references to this problem,
> but no apparent solution.
> 
> I am connection from a GNU/Linux system to a Win2K box via SSH.  The
> Win2K system is running Cygwin and the Cygwin sshd daemon.  I've
> followed Mike Erdeley's recommendations in setting up SSH, including
> renaming my standard 2K userid to something more unixlike.
> 
> On the 2K box, from within legacy MS Windows, I can access shares.  I've
> "mapped" several of these via symlinks as /net/<host>/<share>/.  Cygwin
> under windows can access these shares.
> 
> Cygwin via remote ssh cannot access these shares.  Cygwin via *local*
> ssh (ssh localhost; ls /net/<host>/<share> *does* work.
> 
> I've seen suggestions that the Win2K 'NET' command may be of some use
> here, but I'm unfamiliar with its syntax, and it also appears to be
> acting differently under a remote SSH session than it does locally on
> the Win2K box.
> 
> Suggestions appreciated.

In an offlist response, I was asked whether or not I was not using
password authentication.  Indeed I wasn't, relying instead on RSAKEY
with ssh-agent for passwordless connections.  This is apparently a known
bug with Cygwin's SSH:  you can access the remote host but not shares
connected to it.  Falling back on password auth avoids this issue,
though it reduces the convenience factor.

Thanks.

Peace.

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