Accessing network drive with ssh

[mwoehlke]

David Greene wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Searching the mailing list archives or looking into the FAQ would have
>> been of some help.
> 
> Rather than let this extremely unhelpful reply be the last word,
> I'll relate my experience.  I'm sorry, but it's nearly impossible
> to do web searches on this topic.  I know, I spent weeks doing them.
> 
> The FAQ has zero useful information about this particular issue.
> It should definitely be added.  The FAQ itself sorely needs to
> be reorganized.  Too many things are covered under too broad of
> topics.  It's very hard to find answers to specific questions.

The problem is that there are so many permutations of the problem that 
what works for one person may or may not work for another. Case in 
point, ...

> Basically, you will not be able to access network drives
> via /cygdrive or DOS-style drive letters when in an ssh
> session.  For some reason "net use" gets very confused in
> an ssh environment and the drive mapping just doesn't work.

...I have no problems getting drive letter mapping to work on one 
computer, and the only issue on the other is that the drive is, for some 
reason, read-only.

If drives are publicly readable, what WFM is to issue a bunch of 'net 
use' commands in a script that starts sshd (i.e. my sshd service 
actually runs 'bash -c <script>'). Of course, this is in a situation 
where I never need to specify a UN/PW combination.

> But you can access them via the network path name (e.g.
> //net-drive/<path>.

The problem in my case is that some things don't like being pointed at 
UNC paths (Microsoft's compiler, IIRC?), so drive letter mapping HAS to 
be used.

> You'll have to set sshd to run under your user account.

...And I don't do this. My sshd always runs as 'SYSTEM'.

-- 
Matthew
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