Mounting directory problems

[Larry Hall]

At 12:08 PM 9/21/2005, you wrote:
>Hi, 
>
>I've create an network drive on srv1 that map \\srv2\test to k: using
>Windows2003 GUI.
>
>But now I want to access that from cygwin, and I can't.
>
>I've tryed to mount it using mount, but it is not working. Here is
>what I've done :
>
>$ mount x: /srv2_test
>mount: warning - /srv2_test does not exist.
>$ mount 
>....
>x: on /srv2_test type system (binmode)
>....
>
>$ ls /srv2_test
>ls: /srv2_test: No such file or directory
>
>
>I've tried the same thing, with creating the directory /srv2_test
>before but (except the mounting warning), I have exactly the same
>problem... What I have done wrong ?


You mounted the wrong drive.  Replace 'x:' with 'k:' and it will work.
Or just mount the share directly:

  mount //srv2/test /srv2_test

You really should create '/srv2_test' first.


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