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Re: multi-user environment: mounting a lot of shares via ssh
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Andreas Petralia <Andreas dot Petralia at adnovum dot ch>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: "andreas at adnovum dot ch" <Andreas dot Petralia at adnovum dot ch>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:39:34 -0400
- Subject: Re: multi-user environment: mounting a lot of shares via ssh
- References: <41502E44.8CAE54F0@adnovum.ch>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 09:36 AM 9/21/2004, you wrote:
>hi
>
>while 'shares' can be mounted in a ssh session via 'net use' by a single
>user, it seems that in a multi-user environment, the users have to make
>sure, that they do not re-use already mapped drive letters.
>
>consider the following example:
>
>user A:
>1. ssh <host>
>2. net use h: \\\\computer\\A_home
>3. ln -s /cygdrive/h /HOMES/A
> --> ok
>
>user B:
>1. ssh <host>
>2. net use h: \\\\computer\\B_home
> --> System error 85 has occurred.
> The local device name is already in use.
>
>question:
>how can more than 26 users (user A, user B, ... user Z) mount their
>HOME-directory?
>is there a way to solve this problem?
Is that pubkey or password authentication?
Why not use the UNC path directly instead?
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