Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <232810-220034121234158313@M2W038.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com" To: kmself AT ix DOT netcom DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Resolution: Re: Can't access windows shares when logged into Win2K via cygwin sshd Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:41:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Apr 2003 23:41:45.0046 (UTC) FILETIME=[9160C760:01C3085F] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h3LNfwX11720 Yes, I'm in 100% agreement with what Max says here. If my previous response suggested otherwise, it is incorrect. This is a consequence of the Windows authentication mechanism. Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Max Bowsher maxb AT ukf DOT net Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:00:20 +0100 To: kmself AT ix DOT netcom DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Resolution: Re: Can't access windows shares when logged into Win2K via cygwin sshd Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:08:13PM +0100, Karsten M. Self > (kmself AT ix DOT netcom DOT com) wrote: >> I've researched via Google and found a few references to this problem, >> but no apparent solution. >> >> I am connection from a GNU/Linux system to a Win2K box via SSH. The >> Win2K system is running Cygwin and the Cygwin sshd daemon. I've >> followed Mike Erdeley's recommendations in setting up SSH, including >> renaming my standard 2K userid to something more unixlike. >> >> On the 2K box, from within legacy MS Windows, I can access shares. I've >> "mapped" several of these via symlinks as /net///. Cygwin >> under windows can access these shares. >> >> Cygwin via remote ssh cannot access these shares. Cygwin via *local* >> ssh (ssh localhost; ls /net// *does* work. >> >> I've seen suggestions that the Win2K 'NET' command may be of some use >> here, but I'm unfamiliar with its syntax, and it also appears to be >> acting differently under a remote SSH session than it does locally on >> the Win2K box. >> >> Suggestions appreciated. > > In an offlist response, I was asked whether or not I was not using > password authentication. Indeed I wasn't, relying instead on RSAKEY > with ssh-agent for passwordless connections. > This is apparently a known bug with Cygwin's SSH: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No, an unavoidable consequence of Windows' authentication mechanism. > you can access the remote host but not shares > connected to it. Falling back on password auth avoids this issue, > though it reduces the convenience factor. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/