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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: use a NAS-drive in cygwin
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:49:02 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: Christian Buhtz
>Sent: 22 September 2005 15:27

> I work with Win98se. There is a NAS (available per FTP and Samba).
> 
> I want to access/mount the NAS in the cygwin filesystem to use it as a
> backup-destination.
> 
> Is it possible?

  Yes.  You can use standard UNC notation to access it via SMB, although
don't forget to escape the backslashes if you're in the shell, or use
forward-slashes (cygwin-specific) instead.  Example:


ls -lart //server/share/subdir/



    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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