Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Chris Faylor Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:58:34 -0500 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format? Message-ID: <20000318195834.A1405@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cgf AT cygnus DOT com, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com References: <20000318085749 DOT 2827 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com> <38D37020 DOT 9A2AAC1F AT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <38D37020.9A2AAC1F@vinschen.de>; from corinna@vinschen.de on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:01:36PM +0100 On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:01:36PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >William Wylde wrote: >> >> Corrina Vinschen scribed: > >Try it with "Corinna". > >> >As it's usual on U*X systems you may use forward slashes: >> > >> > ls //system/directory >> >> In a simular vein, is there any way to mount a remote drive (i.e. NFS) via >> cygwin? If not, are there any plans to incorporate NFS support in a later >> cygwin release? > >If remote drives are visible in the normal network neighborhood >you can mount them with the usual mount command: > >mount -f -b //system/directory /whateveryouwant Just to answer definitively: No. There are no plans to incorporate NFS support into cygwin. Such support is completely outside of any of the design goals of cygwin. Cygwin is just a DLL. It is not a filesystem driver. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com