Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives
Andrey Repin
anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Sun Jan 26 06:20:00 GMT 2014
Greetings, Damian Harty!
>> Can you please do the following commands in order (native windows console
>> preferred, but not necessary):
>> 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.
That's <somewhat> normal in certain network setups, but only until you first
access the network drive in Explorer.
>> subst
> % subst
> %
>> cd /cygdrive/h
> % cd /cygdrive/h
> /cygdrive/h: No such file or directory.
>> explorer H:\\
> (opens the drive correctly)
The "thing" should now work as normal, but...
>> Close the window in either case. net use; subst; cd /cygdrive/h (does it work now?)
> 2nd lap exactly reproduces the results of the first lap.
That sad to know...
I'm, unfortunately, out of ideas.
Perhaps,
cygcheck -srv
would shed some light.
>> Also, a crucial moment - do you use a terminal session, or your machine is
>> physically present at the place, and you are logging to its desktop as
>> normal?
> I am sat at the laptop keyboard running the laptop in question. I log into
> its Windows desktop in the normal fashion.
> So, to recap:
> - Windows can see the networked drives just fine.
> - Cygwin knows about them but declares them unavailable.
> Since I don't know what I don't know, I am unable to fashion a precision
> question to proceed further, except to ask "what stands between me and the
> ability to make the network drives available from within cygwin?"
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 26.01.2014, <10:11>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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