On 17 May 2012, at 10:00, Gareth Howell wrote: > Hi > I asked this a day or so ago but got no responses. I'm posting again just in > case it just got missed. > > I have cygwin (latest) running on an XP machine. It needs to access two > workstations running Win95 and one running Win98. > > At the windows level, there are drive maps to the 'C' drives on the three > workstations as X:, Y: and Z: and the filesystems can be seen. > Cygwin's fstab has lines to mount the same network shares (using UNC paths) > under the /mnt directory. > > The two Win95 shares and the single Win98 share show up just fine as type > vfat when I do a 'mount' when running cygwin terminal on the XP machine. > If I log in remotely using ssh (as Administrator), the two Win95 shares show > up as before, but the Win98 share shows up as type unknown and I can't access > the filesystem. The same occurs if a job is run using the Administrator's > crontab. > > I can see it's probably a permissions issue, but I can't get to the bottom of > it or understand why the behaviour is different between Win95 and Win98. > > Any guidance would be welcome. > > Gareth
I've avoided the problem by accessing the three old machines via another proxy at the remote site. This one can see all three workstations OK over SSH. There is a new problem now, but I'll start a new thread for that. Gareth -- 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
