From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Damian Harty <Damian.Harty@polaris.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461321165.20140124151041@mtu-net.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d086b5de9f248deae22fa7a6f8d7cc2@BL2PR02MB449.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>
Greetings, Damian Harty!
> I've just realised that in my new place of employment, my Windows 7 64 Bit
> laptop isn't seeing the network drives under cygwin the way it used to "by
> magic" in my old place of employment.
> I can mount them using, amazingly, the mount command - or make this
> "permanent" in the /etc/fstab file:
> H: /cygdrive/h ntfs binary 0 0
> Z: /cygdrive/z ntfs binary 0 0
> I can test that it works:
> % mount
> C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
> H: on /cygdrive/h type unknown (binary)
> Z: on /cygdrive/z type unknown (binary)
> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> ...which is lovely, except that it doesn't work as advertised:
> % cd /cygdrive
> % ls
> c
> %
> Q1: Is there something else I need to do after mounting it?
No.
> Q2: Why doesn't it automatically mount the network drives?
It does.
$ ls -ld /?/*
ls: cannot access /?/*: No such file or directory
$ ls -ld /a/*
drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Jun 26 2012 /a/Android
drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Nov 5 10:58 /a/Info&Txt
drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Jun 12 2012 /a/Mac
drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Sep 2 2009 /a/Story
$ ls -ld /z/*
drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Nov 7 00:16 /z/bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 AnrDaemon --------- 2390 May 30 2012 /z/ca.cer
drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Feb 28 2011 /z/crontabs
A: and Z: are network drives, indeed.
The "C" in your /cygdrive/ (and the /cygdrive itself) are just folders you
created for some random reason.
They shouldn't be there.
> I looked at the FAQs and googled and googled, all I got were repated
> descriptions of the mount command, having read all of them I am still
> missing something.
> Thanks in advance,
> Damian
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 24.01.2014, <15:02>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-24 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-24 9:53 Damian Harty
2014-01-24 11:20 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2014-01-24 11:31 ` Damian Harty
2014-01-24 12:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-01-24 13:31 ` Damian Harty
2014-01-26 6:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-01-24 16:28 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-01-24 16:29 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-24 12:53 ` Frank Redeker
2014-01-26 6:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-01-24 13:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-01-24 14:00 ` Damian Harty
2014-01-24 14:51 ` Damian Harty
2014-01-24 14:52 ` tednolan
2014-01-24 15:10 ` Damian Harty
2014-01-24 15:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-01-24 15:58 ` Damian Harty
2014-01-24 17:53 ` Alexander Kriegisch
2014-01-24 19:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-01-24 16:42 ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2014-01-24 17:30 Damian Harty
2014-01-24 19:14 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-01-24 19:32 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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