Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/03/20/17:47:08
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 AT icon-gmbh DOT de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Wylde [SMTP:baron_shatturday AT hotmail DOT com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 09:58
> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT 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?
>
>
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