Re: Mounting a network share

[Mike Brown <brown@mrvideo.vidiot.com>]

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.

MB
-- 
e-mail: vidiot@vidiot.com | vidiot@vidiot.net            /~\ The ASCII
        6082066843@email.uscc.net (140 char limit)       \ / Ribbon Campaign
Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/                           X  Against
             http://vidiot.net/                          / \ HTML Email
"What do you say Beckett. Wanna have a baby?" - Castle to Det. Beckett
"How long have I been gone?" Alexis after seeing Castle and Beckett w/ baby
 - Castle - 11/25/13

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple