Connecting to other PC's on a network using cygwin

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Jan 22 16:25:00 GMT 2009


foulis wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> Im currently running cygwin on a windows pc on our company network.  In
> windows to connect to a machine I can do \\pcname\c$ from the run command to
> view someone elses c:

Cygwin uses //<host>/<share> syntax to do the same thing.

> I am very new to cygwin and unix, is there a similair command that can be
> run from cygwin to view other pc's on the network in the same way?

I'd recommend reading through the Cygwin User's Guide:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/>

It will help answer allot of questions you will likely have.

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