X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EC9775A.1060405@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:55:38 +0100 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: midnight commander does not see external USB hard drives on remote machine References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 11/20/2011 3:59 PM, carolus wrote: > Midnight commander does not see USB storage devices on a remote machine > using an ssh connection. cd /cygdrive/f gives the message "no such file > or directory" from within mc, but the same command works as expected > from ssh. > > could you clarify a bit ? cygwin can not mount remote filesystem, so mc on cygwin lack also such feature. I succeeded to explore a remote filesystem through the shell link, but I suspect any options like copy and view are problematic, I need to investigate. Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple