Re: Mounting a network share

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>]

Greetings, Mike Brown!

>> > > 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.

Cygwin's fstab only accepts 'bind mounts' (in *NIX terms). The article Corinna
mentioned clearly explains that.
Another difference from *NIX is that it is read and interpreted by Cygwin core
(cygwin1.dll) when a new process tree starts.

>> > 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.

Because there's no such place. The resource must be available to the user.

Before we continue this discussion, I suggest to re-read the two paragraphs on
the cygwin.com main page. What Cygwin is and it is not.

You expect kernel OS functionality from a userland application. That's not how
Cygwin works. Cygwin leverages the operating system functionality to create a
level field for porting applications to Windows.

And to your 'net use' issues, 'net help use' should have been your first stop.
Yes, you can just call 'net use <resource>' without specifying the name to
simply authenticate yourself with the resource.
Mind you, specifying a password in command line is always a bad idea. You
never know, where that password would be stored or displayed in between
terminal and the called application.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, November 2, 2015 22:33:09

Sorry for my terrible english...


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