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Date:	Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:39:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	RE: use a NAS-drive in cygwin
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> ----Original Message----
> >From: Christian Buhtz
> >Sent: 22 September 2005 16:54
>
> > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:49:02 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> ls -lart //server/share/subdir/
> >
> > Great! It is so easy.
> >
> > But how can I access the samba if it is passwordprotected?
> >
> > I could login with my windows explorer. But I do not want this way.
>
>   The only way I know to do that would be with the "net use" command,
> which can be called from the command line,
>
> net use \\\\server\\share /U:DOMAIN\\UserName "password"

Or "net use '\\server\share' '/U:DOMAIN\UserName' 'password'"...

> (Or you can omit the password and will be prompted to enter it at the
> keyboard).

Actually, you can't omit it, you have to specify '*' as the password
(i.e.,

net use '\\server\share' '/U:DOMAIN\UserName' '*'

will prompt for the password).

> Note I doubled-up all the backslashes there to escape them, since "net"
> is a 'doze command, not a cygwin one, and therefore only understands
> back-slashes in UNC paths.

HTH,
	Igor
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