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Date:  Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:25:28 -0500
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Grant Miller wrote:
> On 8/29/06, mwoehlke <mwoehlke AT tibco DOT com> wrote:
>> Grant Miller wrote:
>>> I just rebooted one of the Windows systems and tried to SSH in to a
>>> now clean system (nobody else logged in since booting) with ssh keys
>>> and a script in my .bash_profile to attach to a drive letter and I got
>>> the same error (System error 85 has occurred).
>>>
>>> I also changed the drive letter the script was trying to map from h:
>>> to q: (a random drive letter that I haven't used before) and I still
>>> got the same error.
>>>
>>> Omitting the drive letter and using UNC paths works, but it's not
>>> going to be pretty.
>>
>> Are you using a 64-bit Windows by any chance?
> 
> I'm testing and troubleshooting on Windows Server 2003 (regular 32-bit).
> 
> My other systems are running Windows XP Pro (32-bit) and XP Pro x64,
> but we're probably going to dump the 64-bit system and stick with
> 32-bit systems (for application reasons).

Ok, because I've noticed that the 32-bit 'net.exe' on 64-bit systems 
seems to be Just Plain Broken. Sorry that wasn't it... :-)

-- 
Matthew
Ncurses. Blessing console programs since 1993.


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