virtual box shares are visible in the window, but not in an ssh session

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, marty leisner!

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> Its a virtual box shared folder -- I'm mapping "src" to /usr/local/src on
> the host system.

> $ df
> Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> C:/cygwin64     51856440  45548104   6308336  88% /
> D:                 48666     48666         0 100% /cygdrive/d
> E:             302054400 237185024  64869376  79% /cygdrive/e
> $ mount
> C:/cygwin64/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C:/cygwin64/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C:/cygwin64 on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> D: on /cygdrive/d type iso9660 (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> E: on /cygdrive/e type vboxsharedfolderfs
> (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)

Don't map shares to disk letters.
It's that simple.

> $ id
> uid=197609(marty) gid=197609(marty) groups=197609(marty),401408(Medium
> Mandatory Level),545(Users),559(Performance Log
> Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(CONSOLE LOGON),11(Authenticated Users),15(This
> Organization),68578(MicrosoftAccount+martyleisner@yahoo.com),113(Local
> account),4095(CurrentSession),66048(LOCAL),262180(Cloud Account
> Authentication)

> This is in the remote ssh:
> $ df
> Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
> C:/cygwin64     51856440 45549844   6306596  88% /
> D:                 48666    48666         0 100% /cygdrive/d

Indeed, logging in via SSH, you get a separate session, in which your drives
aren't mapped.
See above, drop this poor habit of mapping them to letters.
Use UNC paths directly or symlink them at convenient locations.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 0:13:28

Sorry for my terrible english...