From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heribert Dahms To: 'William Wylde' , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format? Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:46:00 -0000 Message-id: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A002DE97A@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> X-SW-Source: 2000-03/msg00464.html Hi William, in my experience, it's much more stable, cheaper (=free) and easier to install Samba once on a few Unix servers and then forget it than to install NFS S/W on a bunch of NT-clients! Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de) > -----Original Message----- > From: William Wylde [SMTP:baron_shatturday@hotmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 09:58 > To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com > Subject: Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format? > > > > Corrina Vinschen scribed: > > >Bob McGowan wrote: > > > David White wrote: > > > >[...] > > > > I want to make references from bash on NT to a file that is on a > > >shared > > > > drive on a remote system. In a DOS box, I would use the UNC > format > > > > \\computername\sharename\path\file.ext to get at this file. Is > there a > > > > special cygnus format for this sort of thing? > > > >[...] > > > The same format appears to work (for Cygwin 1.0, CD), but you need > to > > > quote it: > > > > > > ls '\\system\directory' > > > >As it's usual on U*X systems you may use forward slashes: > > > > ls //system/directory > > > In a simular vein, is there any way to mount a remote drive (i.e. NFS) > via > cygwin? If not, are there any plans to incorporate NFS support in a > later > cygwin release? > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com