Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 24 15:10, Damian Harty wrote:
> > My experience with cygwin is that if I can open a DOS command window and successfully do:
> >
> >dir k:
> >
> > Drive "k" will be accessible as /cygdrive/k
> 
> *Until now* that has been my experience also...
> 
> Check this out for "curiouser and curiouser":
> 
> Start a command shell from inside Cygwin:
> 
>      % /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe
>     Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
>     Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 
> Then run "net use"
> 
>     C:\cygwin\home\daharty>net use
>     net use
>     New connections will be remembered.
> 
>     Status       Local     Remote                    Network
> 
>     -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Unavailable  H:        \\brt1itssrv003\homes\daharty
>                                                     Microsoft Windows Network
>     Unavailable  Z:        \\wym1itsnas001\cae3\adams_db
>                                                     Microsoft Windows Network
>     The command completed successfully.
> 
>     C:\cygwin\home\daharty>
> 
> The Cygwin icon (installed by the installer and nothing to do with me) has the following properties:
> 
>     C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -t "Cygwin" -
> 
> If at the DOS prompt I run, say, c:\cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe -l and try "net use" then all is in order with that command. This is a minty issue; I need not to be using mintty.

Are you starting mintty as admin?  That might explain it.

Corinna

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