From: Mike Brown <brown@mrvideo.vidiot.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Mounting a network share
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151102180623.GA13339@mrvideo.vidiot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151102162651.GB9730@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:26:51PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 2 10:03, Mike Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 04:40:33AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > > If you want to do it from Cygwin side, use fstab and don't use /cygdrive
> > > prefix. It is for automatic mounts ONLY.
> >
> > I went and found the Cygwin web page that describes fstab. What it doesn't
> > say is how to use it.
>
> It does: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
What I mean is that I was able to create an entry, but I have no idea how to
get the mount program to read the contents.
> > I have the following entry:
> >
> > 192.168.1.40:/Public /Public nfs noacl 0 0
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This syntax isn't known in Windows. Use the same syntax as with SMB
> shares, just use forward slashes:
>
> //192.168.1.40/Public /Public foo binary 0 0
>
> "noacl" has no meaning on NFS shares, btw.
No there no explantion on how to enter a user and password. I tried the nfs
syntax because it doesn't require a password.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-02 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-01 21:02 Mike Brown
2015-11-02 1:50 ` Andrey Repin
2015-11-02 5:35 ` Mike Brown
2015-11-02 11:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-02 16:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-02 16:31 ` Roger Wells
2015-11-02 16:03 ` Mike Brown
2015-11-02 16:26 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-02 18:06 ` Mike Brown [this message]
2015-11-02 19:50 ` Andrey Repin
2015-11-03 13:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-02 23:37 ` Linda Walsh
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