On Jan 24 09:53, Damian Harty wrote: > O learned Denizens, > > I'm best described as a feverish fumbler rather than some sort of expert. > However, I have been around the block a few times but now I find myself > feeling like a newbie again. > > 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
Don't do that. The /cygdrive prefix is the default POSIX path prefix for drives mounted by Windows. Any drive X: is automatically available as /cygdrive/x. You can change the cygdrive prefix in /etc/fstab (I'm using /mnt, for instance), but you can't manually mount stuff under the cygdrive prefix path. Ths *is* documented: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive Remove the above mount points, exit your Cygwin shells, and try again. If the H and Z drives still don't show up under your /cygdrive prefix, they are probably not really mounted in your Windows session. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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