Visibility of Samba shares after ssh login

[mwoehlke]

mwoehlke wrote:
> Guenter Bachler wrote:
>> I started the ssh-server on the windows client in order to log-on to a 
>> Linux maschine
>> and vice verse. On the Windows client several SAMBA shares have been 
>> mapped
>> and correctly displayed with the 'mount' command  in the cygwin shell.
>>
>> Now invoking an ssh login session from the Linux machine on the 
>> Windows client
>> (under my regular Windows account), the mount command does not display 
>> the
>> SAMBA shares anymore (beginning with drive letters k)
>>
>> Is there any simple procedure to remount all SAMBA shares
>> automatically in the ssh session?
> 
> Not an answer, but I have a similar problem... In fact, this is AFAICT 
> one of *the* most common problems (and yes I've STFW and STFML and did 
> not find a solution that WFM'd). So, if you figure it out, please share.
> 
> (The annoying part is that I somehow got this to work on *one* computer, 
> and can't figure out how to do it again.)
> 
> Anyway, does 'net use' on your ssh session show all the "missing" drives 
> as "unavailable"?

Eureka! It helps to pay attention to what is actually going on on the 
*working* computer :-). I apparently got things working by hacking my 
sshd service to run '/bin/bash -c /usr/local/sbin/sshd_init' (which is a 
script I wrote) instead of '/usr/sbin/sshd'. My 'sshd_init' looks 
something like this:

#!/bin/bash

export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:$PATH"
export CYGWIN='tty'
for drv in <network drives>
   do net use ${drv}: /delete &>/dev/null
done
net use <drive>: <network-path>
<...>
umount <...> &>/dev/null # unmount anything that needs to be mounted
mount -f <...>
<...>
/usr/sbin/sshd -D

-- 
Matthew
Interix, Sphinterix. Cygwin apps don't crash. :-)


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