[ale] cygwin drive maps not shown in ssh

[Greg Freemyer]

Jeff,

I'm not positive, but I don't think the cygwin mounts are system wide
like in UNIX / Linux.

Instead they are specific to the shell session you are in.

When you launch a cygwin bash shell from windows, it is running a
.profile or something that is doing the mounts for your session.

When you are coming in from ssh, you must be invoking a different .profile etc.

So you need to figure out what it is that is being invoked when you
ssh in and add the mount commands to it.

Greg

2008/3/11 Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>:
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> New to Cygwin – just installed yesterday on my Windows XP laptop
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> Trying to figure out why shares mounted on XP are visible in the XP Cygwin
> session window but not  in an ssh session window to same XP box.
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> DETAILS:
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> In the Cygwin window opened from XP I see:
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> $ df -h
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> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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> C:\cygwin\bin          36G   30G  6.7G  82% /usr/bin
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> C:\cygwin\lib          36G   30G  6.7G  82% /usr/lib
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> C:\cygwin              36G   30G  6.7G  82% /
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> c:                     36G   30G  6.7G  82% /cygdrive/c
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> h:                    156G  147G  9.7G  94% /cygdrive/h
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> l:                    225G  134G   91G  60% /cygdrive/l
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> r:                    837G   31G  807G   4% /cygdrive/r
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> Where h, l and r are shared drives mapped to Windows and c is local.
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> However when I ssh into the box (as same user as I logged into Windows with)
> I see:
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> $ df -h
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> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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> C:\cygwin\bin          36G   30G  6.7G  82% /usr/bin
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> C:\cygwin\lib          36G   30G  6.7G  82% /usr/lib
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> C:\cygwin              36G   30G  6.7G  82% /
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> c:                     36G   30G  6.7G  82% /cygdrive/c
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> It appears not to see the shared mounts.   Looking in /cygdrive in the ssh
> session I see on "c" but in the XP session I see the h, l and r.
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> Permissions show these as owned by me and grouped to Users and I've updated
> Users group to have my GID from /etc/passwd.
>
> Interestingly I can mount any of my shares with the UNC path such as:
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> mount -f -s -b -E "//atlts01/users/jlightner" "/data"
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> And then access the share mounted on drive H for XP via /data in the ssh
> session (and the XP session).
>
> This would be a good work around but I'm curious why I would have to do
> that?  Why can't I see the h, l and r in the ssh session?
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