X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:25:15 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <314235915.20121222182515@mtu-net.ru> To: bartels , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: trouble accessing samba shares with spaces and/or parentheses In-Reply-To: <50D4AFA9.5070200@mailme.ath.cx> References: <50D48C53.2080403@mailme.ath.cx> <20121221164750.GE18188@calimero.vinschen.de> <50D495D5.2030104@mailme.ath.cx> <20121221171916.GH18188@calimero.vinschen.de> <50D4A64D.5040301@mailme.ath.cx> <50D4AFA9.5070200@mailme.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Greetings, bartels! >> BTW: Why the insistence on mapping it to a drive letter? Everybody always does that and I don't understand why. Drive letters change. Some >> people hard code 'em in their scripts. This is a recipe for errors. Other people say sometimes that some Windows apps can't work with UNC >> paths. I don't know of any that have this problem anymore. Q:/ doesn't tell me where this directly is located... > No reason, really, other than the fact that Windoze forces us to access physical storage devices via the silly drive letters . What? Where did you get this impression? This is not true for 18 years at least. > Not using drive letters would mean I have two different presentations: one for local storage and one for remote storage. > When in Rome . . . > And is there a way to mount a network share without a drive letter, using cygwin? > More importantly, is it possible to mount a network share, using cygwin, so that it becomes visible/available in explorer? > The scope of mounting seems to be limited to a process (tree). Every service must mount separately. > Or have I missed something? It's always available in Explorer. It is capable of handling UNC paths transparently. Since Win '95. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 22.12.2012, <18:23> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple