Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting
Andrew DeFaria
Andrew@DeFaria.com
Sun Aug 8 20:27:00 GMT 2010
On 08/08/2010 12:40 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> Quoting "Jeremy Bopp" <jeremy@bopp.net>:
>
>> It sounds like your Samba configuration requires authentication in order
>> to access this share. Are you able to access the share as
>> \\server\share using the Windows file explorer without first mapping the
>> share to a drive or authenticating in some other way? Cygwin uses
>> Windows to handle this sort of operation, so if Windows can't access the
>> share without authentication, neither can Cygwin.
>>
>> If authentication is required, you'll either need to map the share to a
>> drive letter or reconfigure your Samba share to allow guests to have
>> read and possibly write access depending on your needs.
>
> Thank you - this has pointed me in the right direction...
>
> The main problem I've got now is how to allow write access to the
> share from this scenario without allowing it from outside... but I am
> working on that.
>
Might you be able to do something like:
net use \\server\share /user:[<domain>\]<username> <password>
To access the share supplying the username and password so that you can
then use the UNC path proper? For example:
Pluto:net use \\\\jupiter\\Video /user:<username> <password>
The command completed successfully.
Pluto:net use
New connections will not be remembered.
Status Local Remote Network
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OK \\jupiter\Video Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.
Pluto:
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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