Document support for @ character in UNC paths

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 25 17:53, Takeshi Nishimura via Cygwin wrote:
> 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.

Thanks!  I assume share enumeration doesn't work yet in Cygwin.
We can look into that for 3.7.


Corinna