Greetings, Damian Harty! > I've just realised that in my new place of employment, my Windows 7 64 Bit > laptop isn't seeing the network drives under cygwin the way it used to "by > magic" in my old place of employment.
> I can mount them using, amazingly, the mount command - or make this > "permanent" in the /etc/fstab file: > H: /cygdrive/h ntfs binary 0 0 > Z: /cygdrive/z ntfs binary 0 0 > I can test that it works: > % mount > C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) > H: on /cygdrive/h type unknown (binary) > Z: on /cygdrive/z type unknown (binary) > C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) > ...which is lovely, except that it doesn't work as advertised: > % cd /cygdrive > % ls > c > % > Q1: Is there something else I need to do after mounting it? No. > Q2: Why doesn't it automatically mount the network drives? It does. $ ls -ld /?/* ls: cannot access /?/*: No such file or directory $ ls -ld /a/* drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Jun 26 2012 /a/Android drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Nov 5 10:58 /a/Info&Txt drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Jun 12 2012 /a/Mac drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Sep 2 2009 /a/Story $ ls -ld /z/* drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Nov 7 00:16 /z/bin -rw-r--r-- 1 AnrDaemon --------- 2390 May 30 2012 /z/ca.cer drwxr-xr-x 1 AnrDaemon --------- 0 Feb 28 2011 /z/crontabs A: and Z: are network drives, indeed. The "C" in your /cygdrive/ (and the /cygdrive itself) are just folders you created for some random reason. They shouldn't be there. > I looked at the FAQs and googled and googled, all I got were repated > descriptions of the mount command, having read all of them I am still > missing something. > Thanks in advance, > Damian > CONFIDENTIAL: The information contained in this email communication is Please remove this crap from list mails, thank you. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 24.01.2014, <15:02> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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