Subject: Re: multi-user environment: mounting a lot of shares via ssh
From: Larry Hall <[email-masked]>
To: Andreas Petralia <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:39:34 -0400

At 09:36 AM 9/21/2004, you wrote:
>hi
>
>while 'shares' can be mounted in a ssh session via 'net use' by a single
>user, it seems that in a multi-user environment, the users have to make
>sure, that they do not re-use already mapped drive letters.
>
>consider the following example:
>
>user A:
>1. ssh <host>
>2. net use h: \\\\computer\\A_home
>3. ln -s /cygdrive/h /HOMES/A
> --> ok
>
>user B:
>1. ssh <host>
>2. net use h: \\\\computer\\B_home
> --> System error 85 has occurred.
>     The local device name is already in use.
>
>question:
>how can more than 26 users (user A, user B, ... user Z) mount their
>HOME-directory?
>is there a way to solve this problem?

Is that pubkey or password authentication?

Why not use the UNC path directly instead?

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