"net use" (and "net config")

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-01-16, cuicui <cuicui.oizo@free.fr> wrote:
> 
>>>> Is there any way to get mapped drives and public-key
>>>> authentication working together?
>>> Perhaps I should add that the problem doesn't exist under
>>> Win2K: "net use" works fine regardless of the ssh
>>> authentication method.
>> This is a bit offlist but maybe that's because under Windows
>> 2000, network drives are available for the whole system once
>> mounted. With Windows XP, the very same function used to map a
>> network drives jailed them in the current "userland".
>>
>> It means that you can have the same (network) drive letter
>> assigned multiple times, one in each userland.
> 
> And when logged in using public key authentication, you don't
> have a "userland"?


Well you do but it's SYSTEM's "userland".  I suppose you could try opening
a system-owned shell and "net use"ing the share you want.  Google for the
recipe to create a system-owned shell.


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