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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:59:08 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem accessing networdrives via rsh and rlogin
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In-Reply-To: <658B168FF59ED4119FC200508BF354BB02C957D0@exgate.tek.com>; from holger.birkmeyer@exgate.tek.com on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:01:28PM -0700

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:01:28PM -0700, holger DOT birkmeyer AT exgate DOT tek DOT com wrote:
> Executing ls /cygdrive/I: works, rsh localhost -l username "ls /cygdrive/I:"
> does not do anything with I: being a network drive (samba NTFS).

The correct syntax is 

	/cygdrive/i

not

	/cygdrive/i:

POSIX paths naturally try to get rid of the colon.

In terms of using network shares... I've just written a mail in
another thread which should answer to that problem.

Corinna

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