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 From: Alexis Huxley Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:02:38 +0200 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: SSH into XP: mapped network drives disappeared! Message-ID: <20031023070238.GA11408@te35.hq.eso.org> Reply-To: Alexis Huxley References: <20031022183112.GA18629@te35.hq.eso.org> <20031022183112.GA18629@te35.hq.eso.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20031022182841.02997520@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20031022182841.02997520@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.35 > Ah, common problem. You've queried the wrong list. See > . 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. > 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. Alexis -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/