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Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 06:37:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: Windows Share Folder Problem
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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> I am going to present the seminar on Cygwin in my organization.In that
> seminar I want to show you can access windows shared folder of any PC
> from Cygwin. To demonstrate that I have tried to mount that windows
> shared folder in cygwin but it didn't work. When I have searched in
> google for it. I came to know that i need to install "samba" on
> cygwin.

No need to mount anything or install samba: windows shares can be
accessed using the familiar Windows syntax, only with Unix slashes
rather than DOS backslashes:

//server/share/path_to_file

Actually you can use backslashes too, but then the filename needs to be quoted:

"\\server\share\path_to_file"

Good luck with the seminar!

Andy

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