X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Grant Edwards Subject: Re: "net use" (and "net config") Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <478E9184.2060909@free.fr> <478EE840.2090603@cygwin.com> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 2008-01-17, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> It means that you can have the same (network) drive letter >>> assigned multiple times, one in each userland. >> >> And when logged in using public key authentication, you don't >> have a "userland"? > > Well you do but it's SYSTEM's "userland". So why can't one map drives in SYSTEM's "userland"? > I suppose you could try opening a system-owned shell and "net > use"ing the share you want. Google for the recipe to create a > system-owned shell. Why the difference in userland depending on which authentication method is used? That seems really counter-intuitive. [and people wonder why I hate using MS Windows...] -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Jesuit priests are at DATING CAREER DIPLOMATS!! visi.com -- 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/