On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:26:51PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 2 10:03, Mike Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 04:40:33AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > > > If you want to do it from Cygwin side, use fstab and don't use /cygdrive > > > prefix. It is for automatic mounts ONLY. > > > > I went and found the Cygwin web page that describes fstab. What it doesn't > > say is how to use it. > > It does: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
What I mean is that I was able to create an entry, but I have no idea how to get the mount program to read the contents. > > I have the following entry: > > > > 192.168.1.40:/Public /Public nfs noacl 0 0 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This syntax isn't known in Windows. Use the same syntax as with SMB > shares, just use forward slashes: > > //192.168.1.40/Public /Public foo binary 0 0 > > "noacl" has no meaning on NFS shares, btw. No there no explantion on how to enter a user and password. I tried the nfs syntax because it doesn't require a password. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com | vid...@vidiot.net /~\ The ASCII 6082066...@email.uscc.net (140 char limit) \ / Ribbon Campaign Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ X Against http://vidiot.net/ / \ HTML Email "What do you say Beckett. Wanna have a baby?" - Castle to Det. Beckett "How long have I been gone?" Alexis after seeing Castle and Beckett w/ baby - Castle - 11/25/13 -- 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