Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/10/23/12:45:07
At 03:02 AM 10/23/2003, Alexis Huxley you wrote:
>> Ah, common problem. You've queried the wrong list. See
>> <mailto:ssh-l AT erdelynet DOT com>.
>
>Okay thanks, I'm in the process of trying to subscribe to it now.
>
>>>> 'net use' before the 'slogin' shows the Y: drive, and obviously I
>>>> can cd to /cygdrive/y. 'net use' after 'slogin' shows Y: is there
>>>> but "not available", and attempting to cd to /cygdrive/y obviously fails.
>>>>
>>>> I've read, and indeed this 'net use' check seems to confirm, that this
>>>> is not a Cygwin problem at all, but an XP problem.
>>>
>>> My understanding is that network mapped drives will be marked Unavailable
>>> IFF you did a "passwordless" login (however you managed to accomplish a
>>> "passwordless" login). However I just tried an ssh passwordfull login and
>>> mapped drives are listed as Unavailable! Guess my understanding of this is
>>> screwed up!
>
>Exactly what I experience too; my PC account has a password (stored somewhere
>centrally), SSH requests authentication using this password (i.e. no
>.rhosts/.shosts/publickey). But still the drives are not available.
As reported by 'net use'. That doesn't appear to be very significant
from what I found.
>> Not necessarily. Did you try to access the mapped drives? They're still
>> accessible, even though they're not "available". I'm not sure why Windows
>
>Err ... how do you mean? What Cygwin commmands are you running that show
>they're still accessible? I mean I try cd'ing, or ls'ing and all report
>no such directory.
Right. For you. As I said, this works like I would expect when installing
and configuring as the Cygwin site says so I can only conclude that the
problem is your configuration. That's why I directed you to the
erdelynet.com list, since that's where you got the information to configure
your installation.
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