From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 109371 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2015 08:23:56 -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 109357 invoked by uid 89); 24 Apr 2015 08:23:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 08:23:54 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YlYte-0008Vg-Np for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:23:38 +0200 Received: from b2b-130-180-25-142.unitymedia.biz ([130.180.25.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:23:38 +0200 Received: from thorsten by b2b-130-180-25-142.unitymedia.biz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:23:38 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Does sftp file system work in Cygwin? Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 08:23:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <177474612.20150424010311@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-04/txt/msg00572.txt.bz2 * Woody Setzer (Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:28:36 -0400) > I am running Mate under Cygwin on a Windows 7 Professional system, > and > want to connect to a Linux server running on our local network. > Ultimately, I will be connecting through my Agency's VPN, which is so > slow as to render using X over that conduit useless. So, I want to > access my files on the Linux computer's filesystem via sftp. I can get > files from the Cygwin command line from that server using sftp, and > can login via ssh. I have the gvfs package installed under Cygwin. The > Cygwin installation on my Windows machine was updated 23 April 2015. > > I have tried two approaches to setting up an sftp based file system on > Cygwin. The first was to run Mate on the Windows box, and use the > "Connect to Server" dialog, specifying SSH for the file system. that > results in the error "Unable to spawn SSH program". The second was to > use gvfs-mount from the command line, which results in a similar > error: > > $ gvfs-mount sftp://xx.xx.xxx > Error mounting location: Unable to spawn SSH program > > Should this work in Cygwin? Is there some configuration I need to attend to? > I spent the afternoon with Google search, and have found very little about this. User-space file systems (mostly fuse based in Linux to my knowledge) are not going to work in Cygwin. This means you can mount a Cygwin SFTP server resource on Linux but not vice versa. Thorsten -- 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