X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: RE: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:37:15 +0200 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <047101c6cc4d$9dd751c0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> From: "Schwarz, Konrad" To: "Dave Korn" , Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k817bU2W031462 > >> By the way, any idea why //localhost/C$ doesn't work? > > do you have > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > in your hosts file ? Yes, localhost is in %SystemRoot%\System32\etc\drivers\hosts. > No, I don't think that's it. This is netbios name > resolution and DNS doesn't come into it; it's resolved by > broadcasting a udp datagram with the desired netbios name and > seeing if anyone in the local network jumps up and claims it. > It would be bad if every machine on the network all claimed > to be 'localhost' at the same time! I think you're right: $ ls //localhost/C$ ls: //localhost/C$: Given log. name not unique $ nslookup localhost Server: mail2.siemens.de Address: 139.25.208.11 Non-authoritative answer: Name: localhost.ww002.siemens.net Address: 127.0.0.1 $ which is weird, I shouldn't have thought that nslookup return a positive answer at all, and especially not a fully-qualified name. Regards, Konrad Schwarz -- 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/