Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/06/20/15:46:11
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 02:15:16PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>I would like to propose an enhancement to automatically map drives
>during "start up" similar to how Windows automatically (re)maps drives
>during logon. I'm not sure whether this functionality (if acceptable)
>should go into the Cygwin DLL or something like login.
>
>The reason that I'm proposing this feature is that the only way that I
>was able to have a consistent set of mounts with both console and telnet
>access was to use mount with UNC style Win32 paths. Unfortunately, many
>native Win32 apps can't deal with a UNC style path as their current
>directory.
>
>For example, my home directory is a share, \\cancerman\home.jt, which
>Windows maps to H: during logon. I would like Cygwin to perform this
>mapping when I login via telnet, if necessary (ie, I am not currently
>logged on at the console).
>
>If this proposal is deemed reasonable, then I'll volunteer to help
>define and implement it.
I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting. You don't need to actually
"mount" a drive to access remote services. You can do this:
mount -b //cancerman/home.jt /home
and it will work correctly. You don't need to have the h: drive mounted.
This isn't a Cygwin thing. You can also do things like this:
dir \\cancerman\home.jt
cgf
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