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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:54:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com
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Subject: Re: Using a central directory for cygwin installation
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am planning a centralisation of my cygwin environment.
>
> Now I have three servers with each their separate cygwin installation.
> I would use our Solaris server together with Samba to create a share
> on which the cygwin tree would be maintained.
>
> I am now testing the mount command, and when I try to do
>
> mount '\\beb0628\buildpc' /mnt/tst
>
> I get
>
> mount: /mnt/tst: permission denied
>
> or is <win32path> only a path with a drive letter ?
> I can do "ls '\\beb0628\buildpc'" though, so
> cygwin understands that kind of information.
>
> Regards,
> Jurgen

Jurgen,

I use a Samba mount every day.  Try using forward slashes, i.e.,

mount //beb0628/buildpc /mnt/tst

Depending on whether the mount point exists, you might also need to
specify the -f flag.

Are you trying to do a system mount, or a user one?  If system, does the
user have enough privileges (i.e., permission to write to HKLM)?

What is the value of your CYGWIN variable (I'm shooting in the dark here)?
	Igor
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