cygwin on Mac: files in Virtual PC "shared folder"

[Ashley Ward]

On 14 Apr 2005, at 12:33 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 14 10:54, Ashley Ward wrote:
>> 2) The '\' character used in Windows share names is an escape 
>> character
>> to bash -- so the example "mount \\pollux\home\joe\data /data" in the
>> cygwin manual (example 3.10) is misleading.  For me, that style of
>> example gives error messages about "/data", not the Windows share
>> (actually the cause of the problem), which doesn't help.  I do see the
>> mentions in manual around that point about using the Windows command
>> shell (presumably with the cygwin bin in the PATH?) and also about
>> using '/' rather than '\', but it doesn't seem very clear to me --
>> perhaps the example could be changed to "mount 
>> '\\pollux\home\joe\data'
>> /data"?
>
> Erm... *cough, cough*, you're not a slave of the user manual, right?
> Why not just try it?  Using forward slashes or \\ in bash seems quite
> natural to me.

Hmmm -- thanks for your response, Corinna -- but I am a little confused 
by it.  I did actually try it, as I described in my next paragraph:

> 3) I did manage to mount the share by enclosing the share name in 
> single quotes as above, but then access to the mount point with ls, cd 
> etc failed with "invalid request code" - sigh.  Finally I gave up on 
> cygwin "mount" and instead mounted the share as F: using right-click 
> and "map drive" in Windows.  It was then accessible to cygwin under 
> /cygdrive/f.

Perhaps I'm not being clear enough.  I'm suggesting changing example 
3.10 in the manual from
   mount \\pollux\home\joe\data /data
to
   mount '\\pollux\home\joe\data' /data
as the existing example, although natural, doesn't work in bash as '\' 
outside quotes is interpreted as an escape.  The manual as it stands 
does hint at this, but not very directly.

However, adding the quotes may not be the right change to make, since 
although adding the quotes allowed the mount command to complete, for 
me it still didn't mount the files such that I could actually access 
them.

Ashley.


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