X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50D5CBF2.8010609@mailme.ath.cx> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:04:18 +0100 From: bartels User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.11) Gecko/20121123 Icedove/10.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: trouble accessing samba shares with spaces and/or parentheses 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> <314235915.20121222182515@mtu-net.ru> In-Reply-To: <314235915.20121222182515@mtu-net.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 12/22/2012 03:25 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> > 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. > That is interesting. How do I use cygwin to copy files off any eSata disk without using a drive letter? Probably, I could let cygwin mount the fs somehow, using the volume name. But I do not know the volume name beforehand, because they are not my disks. - bartels -- 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