cygwin: how to mount linux FS from cygwin

Thorsten Kampe thorsten@thorstenkampe.de
Fri Jun 29 08:17:00 GMT 2012


* ping (Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:01:34 -0400)
> I just installed full cygwin and I now need to access a folder from 
> inside cygwin machine(win7). I did some google search but no good match.
> are there any known best practice for that (e.g through SSH)?
> the cygwin ssh client works fine but I just dont wanna bother to copy 
> DIRs ..

Your options are SMB and NFS depending on which is setup on the server. 
You mount both with Windows tools (not Cygwin). Or you use a SCP/SFTP 
client like WinSCP or FileZilla.

Thorsten


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