Cygwin, Windows Shared Drive Access

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, mcforum!

> A new Windows 7 32 system with a fresh install of CYGWIN can't see any mapped 
> network or shared drives on my other systems.

Stop using mapped drives already...
UNC is there to help you.

> On the older XP system IT tells 
> me to replace and on another older Windows 7 32 system, CYGWIN could access all 
> drives.  What am I missing in the install that enables access to those drives?

...seriously, don't use mapped drives.

>  
> From the startup window from CYGWIN.BAT the net use command works successfully

You're using it wrong.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>  
> RM3@McBroomRC4 ~
> $ net use \\\\mcbroomrc2\\e
> The command completed successfully.
>  
> RM3@McBroomRC4 ~
> $ net use \\\\mcbroomrc2\\mcrc2
> The command completed successfully.
>  
>  
> RM3@McBroomRC4 ~
> $ net use
> New connections will be remembered.
>  
>  
> Status       Local     Remote                    Network
>  
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Unavailable  T:        \\Mcbroomrc2\e            Microsoft Windows Network
> Unavailable  U:        \\oro-fbbe-fs1nts\rm3     Microsoft Windows Network
> Unavailable  W:        \\Mcbroomrc2\mcrc2        Microsoft Windows Network
> OK                     \\mcbroomrc2\e            Microsoft Windows Network
> OK                     \\mcbroomrc2\mcrc2        Microsoft Windows Network
> The command completed successfully.
>  

> RM3@McBroomRC4 ~
> $ ls -l //mcbroomrc2/e
> total 364
> d---------+ 1 Administrators Domain Users      0 Nov 13 09:42 $RECYCLE.BIN
> -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Domain Users     35 Jul 29  2010 Autorun.inf
> drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Domain Users      0 Nov 13 15:09 Criticality
> drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Domain Users      0 Feb 25 10:04 Downloads
> drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Domain Users      0 Mar 19 16:37 exper
> dr-xr-x---+ 1 Administrators Domain Users      0 Feb 25 11:48 hdrive
> drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Domain Users      0 Nov 13 12:39 isotope
>  

Now, try the same without any dances around the tree.

> The shares don't seem to be shown anywhere on the system tree but I can soft
> link them to a directory name and then access them.

...sorry, but they are indeed shown where they are - network places - windows
network ... there they all. Should be, if your network configured properly.

> On a CYGWIN restart "net use" shows the network names as being disconnected and 
> reissuing the command doesn't change the status.  However, re-establishing the 
> soft link allows full usability.
>  
> Gremlins?

There's nothing to do with cygwin. You don't have a control connection to the
remote server.

net use \\server\IPC$

Once you're authenticated with remote server, you can just use UNC names
directly.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 27.03.2013, <05:42>

Sorry for my terrible english...