[ale] cygwin drive maps not shown in ssh

[Jeff Lightner]

Actually you're partially right - mounts can be made system wide with
the -s option of mount (see the mount command I used that did make it
available) for both the Cygwin (Windows) session and the ssh session.  

What I was hoping is that someone could tell me why these drive letter
mounts aren't available (i.e. are they done without the -s option and if
so is there some place I can change that behavior?)   There's no fstab
and I'm assuming it is getting the mounts from my Windoze login before I
start Cygwin.   

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
Freemyer
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:26 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] cygwin drive maps not shown in ssh

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>:
>
>
>
>
> New to Cygwin - just installed yesterday on my Windows XP laptop
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> DETAILS:
>
> In the Cygwin window opened from XP I see:
>
> $ df -h
>
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>
> C:\cygwin\bin          36G   30G  6.7G  82% /usr/bin
>
> C:\cygwin\lib          36G   30G  6.7G  82% /usr/lib
>
> C:\cygwin              36G   30G  6.7G  82% /
>
> c:                     36G   30G  6.7G  82% /cygdrive/c
>
> h:                    156G  147G  9.7G  94% /cygdrive/h
>
> l:                    225G  134G   91G  60% /cygdrive/l
>
> r:                    837G   31G  807G   4% /cygdrive/r
>
> Where h, l and r are shared drives mapped to Windows and c is local.
>
>
>
> However when I ssh into the box (as same user as I logged into Windows
with)
> I see:
>
> $ df -h
>
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>
> C:\cygwin\bin          36G   30G  6.7G  82% /usr/bin
>
> C:\cygwin\lib          36G   30G  6.7G  82% /usr/lib
>
> C:\cygwin              36G   30G  6.7G  82% /
>
> c:                     36G   30G  6.7G  82% /cygdrive/c
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> mount -f -s -b -E "//atlts01/users/jlightner" "/data"
>
> 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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