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According to Ilya Beylin on 3/3/2010 12:42 AM:
> $ ls -l '\\HERA\shared\benchmarks\test'
> ls: cannot access \\hera\shared\benchmarks\test: Not a directory

Use POSIX-style paths, to see the difference.

$ ls -l //HERA/shared/benchmarks/test

>=20
> I do not quite understand what is going on; doesn't Cygwin uses Windows s=
tandard calls to access the network drives?

Yes, but only after translating POSIX-style names into windows style names
under the hood.  Providing windows-style names up front tells cygwin to
take different code paths, and in particular, turns off some ACL work, and
you are on your own if a name with a backslash doesn't do what you wanted.

--=20
Eric Blake   eblake AT redhat DOT com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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