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RE: UNC file names, symlinks and ssh


On 16 November 2006 12:03, Phillip Lord wrote:

> I am getting some confusing behaviour from cygwin that I don't
> understand. Essentially, UNC files names appear to be behaving very
> differently between the console and when sshing into the machine.

> I'm very confused. I always assumed a shell was a shell whether it was
> writing to a local terminal or through an ssh session.

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.shares

  You can probably work round  it by issuing the command

net use //<server>/<share> /U:<yourusername> "<yourpassword>"

at the shell prompt after login.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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