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Subject: Re: Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:26:52 -0700
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On 08/08/2010 12:40 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> Quoting "Jeremy Bopp" <jeremy@bopp.net>:
>
>> It sounds like your Samba configuration requires authentication in order
>> to access this share.  Are you able to access the share as
>> \\server\share using the Windows file explorer without first mapping the
>> share to a drive or authenticating in some other way?  Cygwin uses
>> Windows to handle this sort of operation, so if Windows can't access the
>> share without authentication, neither can Cygwin.
>>
>> If authentication is required, you'll either need to map the share to a
>> drive letter or reconfigure your Samba share to allow guests to have
>> read and possibly write access depending on your needs.
>
> Thank you - this has pointed me in the right direction...
>
> The main problem I've got now is how to allow write access to the 
> share from this scenario without allowing it from outside... but I am 
> working on that.
>
Might you be able to do something like:

net use \\server\share /user:[<domain>\]<username> <password>

To access the share supplying the username and password so that you can 
then use the UNC path proper? For example:

Pluto:net use \\\\jupiter\\Video /user:<username> <password>
The command completed successfully.

Pluto:net use
New connections will not be remembered.


Status       Local     Remote                    Network

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OK                     \\jupiter\Video           Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.

Pluto:
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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