Document support for @ character in UNC paths

[Takeshi Nishimura]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 25 16:59, Takeshi Nishimura via Cygwin wrote:
> > Subject says it all, please document that @ characters in UNC paths
> > are now supported, for WebDAV and BeeGFS
>
> Right now it's only documented that WebDAV shares are supported:
>
> - Expose WebDav shares, //tsclient (Microsoft Terminal Services)
>   shares as well as //wsl$ (Plan 9 Network Provider) shares, i. e.,
>   WSL installation root dirs.
>
> We don't have any special code in Cygwin to support BeeGFS, it's
> kind of a by-product of the WebDAV support.
>
> How are the BeeGFS shares exposed to Windows clients?  Is a special
> driver required, or are they just SMB shares?

No, it's beegfs.sys you install.
SMB is not used, it uses its own protocol. If you do a
FileRemoteProtocolInfo query the protocol field says it's a
WNNC_NET_RDR2SAMPLE.
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Internationalization&localization dev / 大阪大学
Takeshi Nishimura <takeshi.nishimura.linux@gmail.com>