X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SARE_LWSHORTT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4ECA27EC.8050602@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:29:00 +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: <4EC9775A DOT 1060405 AT gmail DOT com> 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 11/21/2011 5:44 AM, carolus wrote: > On 11/20/2011 3:55 PM, marco atzeri wrote: >> 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, > > To copy is not a big problem. For example, > > scp junk.f $DELL > (where DELL=dell03:/cygdrive/f/transit_ext) > > will copy junk.f to a directory on a USB hard drive on remote host > dell03. Here I put the target directory in an environment variable so > that I don't have to retype it. I would like to be able to navigate to > the target directory on the remote filesystem without having to type > exact long pathnames (sftp allows no wildcards in the remote cd > command). I can do that with midnight commander on the remote system > drive /cygdrive/c, but not on the remote USB HDD /cygdrive/f > > I can only guess that mc is connecting with insufficient privileges / different identity that ssh. I need to look how the FISH module is performing the browsing on the remote computer, and I have currently no clue of it. I will not be able to test a ssh connection to another cygwin computer, for at least one month as I am travelling for job. So do not expect a short term solution. 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