Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/07/15:39:41
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 01:50 PM 6/7/2005, you wrote:
>
> >> >Hummingbird9 + Win2K + NFS shares works beautifully, FYI. I don't
> >> >have any of the problems mentioned in the cygwin FAQ re: accessing
> >> >network shares from inside a ssh session.
> >>
> >> OK, so then what was the point of this thread again? I've read it through
> >> again from the beginning and I still can't figure out what, if anything,
> >> was the real problem that prompted you to post originally.
> >
> >I thought it might be something different cygwin was doing - plus
> >the only difference was whether or not I was in a ssh session if
> >I could view the shares or not. A handy link to the FAQ was provided,
> >thus showing me the /expected/ behaviour - which wasn't the behaviour
> >I was expecting.
> >
> >H9+Win2K+cygwin+sshd == visible network shares in a ssh session
> >H9+WinXP+cygwin+sshd == no visible network shares in a ssh session
> >
> >I'll let this thread die, I just wish I had more clues as to why
> >it's behaving different.
>
> Forgive me. I'm full of cough syrup and misread your last post. I
> see that you were saying it works fine with W2K and not XP. For some
> reason I read that as it works fine with XP now. My apologies.
>
> There's nothing inherently different going on for pubkey authentication
> under XP vs W2K. Why the Hummingbird NFS shares show up at all in the
> W2K case is indeed a mystery. For sshd run as a service via the SYSTEM
> user, as far as Windows authentication is concerned, SYSTEM is the current
> user for the ssh session. SYSTEM does not have access to restricted shares
> so in general, you shouldn't be able to see them in the ssh session. If
> you can see NFS shares but not Windows (SAMBA) restricted shares on Win2K,
> then this sounds like a Hummingbird thing to me. In that case, as I
> mentioned before, I'd recommend you talk to Hummingbird. If you can see
> Windows shares there, that's a different story. If the problem is the
> former, then too much discussion of it on this list is off-topic (though
> we're certainly interested in hearing the results and/or solutions). The
> talk list is a place where those interested could continue to discuss it,
> though I expect discussion isn't what's needed. ;-) If the problem is
> actually the latter, well then that's on-topic here since it involves
> Cygwin and Windows, which everybody here has.
The OP mentioned earlier in the thread that Hummingbird allows caching and
using the username/password combinations for NFS mounts. This makes me
think that even with public key authentication, the NFS driver should be
able to construct a valid access token. I wonder if it could be some sort
of a local policy issue?
Matt, one thing to try is to eliminate sshd from the equation altogether:
try opening a system-owned bash shell (Google for it for instructions),
and see whether you can access the NFS drives from it. If it doesn't
work, this is probably a Hummingbird NFS issue, and, as Larry said,
off-topic for this list. If you can access shares from a system-owned
shell, but not via sshd, some further Cygwin debugging may be needed.
Igor
P.S. Nice domain name. :-)
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