can not see mounted fs via ssh

rray_1@comcast.net rray_1@comcast.net
Mon Mar 15 16:23:00 GMT 2010


On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Mar 15 11:36, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 3/15/2010 11:26 AM, rray_1@comcast.net wrote:
>>> what am i missing
>>> i am sure you can see that i am very new to cygwin
>>> where to find documentation on this is appreciated
>>
>> Presuming that you're trying to use pubkey authentication, read the
>> sections having to do with switching user context in the Users Guide:
>>
>> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview>
>>
>> See the 3 options for configuring the service to do this.  You need
>> method 3.
>
> There are other solutions, like calling `net use' in the ssh session.
>
> But there's another important point here which also affects method 3.
> If the machine is running Vista or later, and if the user is an admin
> user, then the shares are usually attached to the non-elevated user
> token.
>
> However, the ssh session uses the elevated token (otherwise no admin
> could do admin stuff in an ssh session).  This elevated user token
> usually doesn't have the shares attached and the effect looks like it's
> just not working, as before.  But it's still expected outcome since the
> non-elevated and the elevated token have different logon session IDs.
>
> Sigh, I think I should really add this to the documentation or the
> FAQ at one point.  Windows authentication is very tricky somehow.
>
>
> Corinna
>
>

adding the net use commands and prompting for a passsword is the simplest 
solution for me

thanks

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