Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 14:20:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Friesenhahn X-X-Sender: bfriesen@scooby.simplesystems.org To: rich-paul@rich-paul.net cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin mounts not available when logged in over network In-Reply-To: <20020602150023.A12067@monster.rich-paul.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 rich-paul@rich-paul.net wrote: > This sounds like a problem I had using an old ORB: The orb ran as a > service, and was unable to access windows shares, although anything else > could. > > The solution, IIRC, was to change the user under which the service ran. I used the procedures described in Cygwin's ssh and inetd documentation to register the servers. The servers are indeed running as windoze services. If the user name is changed, will this cause the user id of the shell that gets started to change? What user ID should the service run under? Note that you are talking to a Windows neophyte here. Bob > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 01:12:09PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > With the current release of Cygwin I am experiencing the bizzare > > problem that a samba mount which is mounted as drive "Z:" on my > > Windows XP system is available to Cygwin applications when accessed > > from a Windows console window (Cygwin default or rxvt), but does not > > appear to be mounted if I access the system via remote login with > > telnet, ssh, or xterm from a remote X11 server. > > > > In a console window 'ls /cydrive/z' lists the expected files but I see > > the error > > > > /bin/ls: /cygdrive/z: No such file or directory > > > > if the shell is accessed over the network. I assume that Cygwin's > > mount mapping is not being activated for some reason. > > > > I am currently using zsh as my shell, compiled under Cygwin, but the > > same problem occurs when using Cygwin's bash shell. > > > > Does anyone know the reason for this problem? Is there a workaround? > > > > Bob > > ====================================== > > Bob Friesenhahn > > bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us > > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > -- > Got freedom? Vote Libertarian: http://www.lp.org > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/