Problem with mount points

Andrew DeFaria Andrew@DeFaria.com
Tue Nov 17 09:24:00 GMT 2009



On 11/17/2009 01:05 AM, helge.kleve@infineon.com wrote:
> Hello,
> i have have a problem with cygwin1.7 on windows Server 2003 Standard 
> Edition.
> Example:
> Two user works on the same server machine e.g. myserver1.
> User A mapped the shared drive where cygwin is installed to the drive 
> letter Z: and user B mapped this shared drive to T:
> So what happens? The user who starts a cygwin shell first has no 
> problems, but the user B who start cygwin after user B has wrong mount 
> points.
> User B see the main mount points from user A.
>
> ===> /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib is mapped to Z: and not to T:
>
> How can i solve this problem?
>
> Best regards
> Helge
This is the problem with drive letters and one example of where they are 
evil. Change the mount points from using drive letters to using UNC 
paths. Then both user A and user B see the same thing.

IIRC:

$ umount -s /
$ umount -s /usr/bin
$ umount -s /usr/lib
$ mount -sbf //server//share/path/to/cygwin /
$ mount -sbf //server//share/path/to/cygwin /usr/bin
$ mount -sbf //server//share/path/to/cygwin /usr/lib

Note running Cygwin from a network location will do very little to speed 
execution...
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Keep honking while I reload.


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