fstab or temp mount -> HKLM mounts table?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 11 14:29, G. Falveli wrote:
> I need to update the HKLM table because the cygwin NFS server only
> seems to export directories that are there. E.g. if I export /vol/dosf
> (which is not in the HKLM table) NFS clients see an empty dir, even
> though on the NFS server /vol/dosf contains many things.
> 
> Also, **is this documented anywhere**?

Did you read the User's Guide?

  http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html

Especially:

  http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table

>  The manual talks on and on
> about how the HKLM table gets read, [...]

The only time the User's Guide talks "on and on" about the old registry
mount points is this note at the end of the aforementioned section about
the mount table:

   Note

   When you upgrade an existing older Cygwin installation to Cygwin 1.7,
   your old system mount points (stored in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branch
   of your registry) [...]

> which is time silly, time-consuming and annoying. Or maybe I
> misunderstood.

Absolutely.


Corinna

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