Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Frank Redeker! >> (SNIP) >> >> $ 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 ---

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Damian Harty! >> Can you please do the following commands in order (native windows console >> preferred, but not necessary): >> net use > % net use > New connections will be remembered. > Status Local RemoteNetwork > >

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/24/2014 12:27 PM, Damian Harty wrote: Please remove this crap from list mails, thank you. I have no control over it. Please feel free to simply ignore it. Actually, you're lucky your email wasn't bounced back to you because of this. It's site policy to not allow such disclaimers. S

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 24 15:58, Damian Harty wrote: > > Are you starting mintty as admin? That might explain it. > > I'm not observing a difference between running mintty as normal and > right-clicking and doing "run as administrator". If that wasn't what you were > asking, then I apologise. > > It seems if

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 05:27:32PM +, Damian Harty wrote: >> >> >Please remove this crap from list mails, thank you. >> > I have no control over it. Please feel free to simply ignore it. > >>Actually, you're lucky your email wasn't bounced back to you because of >>this. It's site policy to not

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Alexander Kriegisch
Dear community, I have read this conversation and am honestly shocked about the way Damian (whom I do not know, BTW) was "greeted" in response to his initial question. I have noticed several times that too often here talk is about compliance to a string of rules and acronyms anyone daring to po

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Damian Harty
> >> >Please remove this crap from list mails, thank you. > > I have no control over it. Please feel free to simply ignore it.   > Actually, you're lucky your email wasn't bounced back to you because of this.  > It's site policy to not allow such disclaimers.  > See the FAQ entry on this > poli

RE: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
BTW, there is a type there, IMO: > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive none /cygdrive cygdrive binary 0 0 D: /cygdrive/d somefs text 0 0 will not make file access using the /mnt/d path prefix suddenly using textmode The sentence after the fstab excerpt should have referr

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/24/2014 6:31 AM, Damian Harty wrote: >Please remove this crap from list mails, thank you. I have no control over it. Please feel free to simply ignore it. Actually, you're lucky your email wasn't bounced back to you because of this. It's site policy to not allow such disclaimers. See th

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:31:16AM +, Damian Harty wrote: >On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 03:10:41PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >>Please remove this crap from list mails, thank you. > >I have no control over it. Please feel free to simply ignore it. Sorry but this disclaimer is against site policy.

RE: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Damian Harty
> Are you starting mintty as admin? That might explain it. I'm not observing a difference between running mintty as normal and right-clicking and doing "run as administrator". If that wasn't what you were asking, then I apologise. It seems if I start a cmd shell "standalone" and run c:\cygwin\

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 24 15:10, Damian Harty wrote: > > My experience with cygwin is that if I can open a DOS command window and > > successfully do: > > > >dir k: > > > > Drive "k" will be accessible as /cygdrive/k > > *Until now* that has been my experience also... > > Check this out for "curiouser and curio

RE: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Damian Harty
> My experience with cygwin is that if I can open a DOS command window and > successfully do: > >dir k: > > Drive "k" will be accessible as /cygdrive/k *Until now* that has been my experience also... Check this out for "curiouser and curiouser": Start a command shell from inside Cygwin: %

RE: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Damian Harty
If I run net use from a simple DOS prompt (Windows\system32\cmd.exe) I get: H:\>net use New connections will be remembered. Status Local RemoteNetwork --- OK H

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread tednolan
In message you write: > >Windows Explorer readily shows drives H: and Z:. That looks like they >"are reall y mounted" to me, but I wouldn't know what constitutes a >rigorous test or even w hat the definition of "really mounted" actually >is. > My experience with cygwin is that if I can open a DOS

RE: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Damian Harty
> 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. OK, so back to where I started. A virginal /etc/fstab once more. Windows Explorer re

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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 employ

RE: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Damian Harty
> Can you please do the following commands in order (native windows console > preferred, but not necessary): > net use % net use New connections will be remembered. Status Local RemoteNetwork ---

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Frank Redeker
Hallo Andrey Repin, On 24.01.2014 12:10, Andrey Repin wrote: > > (SNIP) > > $ 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 > dr

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Damian Harty! >> > Q2: Why doesn't it automatically mount the network drives? >> It does. > Thank you for your constructive reply. We can go around the "It > does/doesn't" loop for some time, if you like. > While it may do on your machine, it is of course entirely possible that, sat

RE: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Damian Harty
> > Q2: Why doesn't it automatically mount the network drives? > It does. Thank you for your constructive reply. We can go around the "It does/doesn't" loop for some time, if you like. While it may do on your machine, it is of course entirely possible that, sat at my machine, I am unable to ac

Re: Windows 7 64 Bit - Mounting Network Drives

2014-01-24 Thread Andrey Repin
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 > "perma