From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 69738 invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2019 21:03:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 69731 invoked by uid 89); 18 Jul 2019 21:03:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Fax, Street, street X-HELO: seine.is.ed.ac.uk Received: from seine.is.ed.ac.uk (HELO seine.is.ed.ac.uk) (129.215.17.202) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:03:54 +0000 Received: from crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk (crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.202.41]) by seine.is.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id x6IL3p3F009442 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:03:51 +0100 Received: from troutbeck.inf.ed.ac.uk (troutbeck.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.25.32]) by crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id x6IL3nEv031965 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:03:49 +0100 Received: from troutbeck.inf.ed.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by troutbeck.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id x6IL3ov9009040 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:03:50 +0100 Received: (from ht@localhost) by troutbeck.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id x6IL3o9x009039; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:03:50 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems seeing/mounting partitions from ssh References: <87lfwvqhx1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: "Henry S. Thompson" Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:03:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87lfwvqhx1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Thu\, 18 Jul 2019 21\:08\:58 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1012 (Gnus v5.10.12) XEmacs/21.5-b34 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at seine.is.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.84, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-07/txt/msg00140.txt.bz2 Achim Gratz writes: > Henry S. Thompson writes: >> But if I come in to this machine via ssh (public key or password), the >> virtual partitions are lost: > > That's how Windows is designed. If you have no desktop session, then > none of the associated setups are triggered. Not to dismiss your point, but this happens even when there _is_ a desktop session. Indeed the material showing the problem in my previous post came from doing > [show working stuff from desktop session] > ssh localhost > [show failing stuff from ssh session] That's what really baffled me. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- 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