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Re: Access to Network Drive under ssh
On Jun 30 11:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 29 22:46, Richard Foulk wrote:
> > I've written my own mount command for Cygwin in Perl. One thing to
> > be aware of is that drive letters aren't necessary with Cygwin.
> >
> > You can't say: `cd \\xyz\c$' with Windows cmd.exe.
> >
> > You *can* say things like: `cd //xyz/c\$' in Cygwin. This cleans up
> > many things. If you have the right permissions `net use' isn't necessary!
> >
> > A wrapper for `net use' in Perl is pretty easy to do, including all
> > the password stuff.
> >
> > Those drive letters just get in the way. Don't use them.
>
> To add another data point:
>
> When running under a public key ssh session, you're running in the login
> session of the SYSTEM user. Also, since you used pubkey instead of
> password login, you don't have the credentials for network access. This
> has two results:
Three, it were three results:
> - You must use the net command to connect to non-public shares.
> - You must use username and password in the net use command.
> - You can't use drive letters.
Corinna
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