Mounting shares that require passwords

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:56:55AM -0600, Steven Collins wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:28, Jeremy Bopp <> wrote:
>> On 8/13/2010 11:24 AM, Steven Collins wrote:
>>> Is there some way within cygwin to successfully mount a share that
>>> requires a password. Until I run the "net use" command or other
>>> Windows application to open the share with the password Cygwin is
>>> unable to access it. The best I've come up with so far is to run the
>>> "net use" from my .bashrc. Is there a better way to handle this?
>>
>> Cygwin doesn't really mount anything. ?It just creates a path
>> translation table which is used to convert POSIX paths into their
>> equivalent Windows paths. ?So if you need to enter a password to access
>> the share using a Windows program or net use the path first, the same
>> will be true for Cygwin.
>
>It would be nice though if Cygwin would recognize that it was trying
>to access a share and that a password is required.

Cygwin is a general-purpose DLL.  It can't stop what it is doing and ask
the user for input.

>I've actually run into an issue with my "net use" solution. Under
>cygwin the command will prompt me for my password, but then it
>immediately fails for a bad password. I'm never actually given a
>chance to enter the password. If I enter the password on the command
>line the command succeeds, but that is not an acceptable solution as
>it means my password is in the clear. Any ideas on why this is
>happening?

Probably you're trying to run the "net use" command from a pty in mintty,
rxvt, or ssh and "net use" doesn't recognize cygwin ptys.

cgf

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