Greetings, bartels! >> BTW: Why the insistence on mapping it to a drive letter? Everybody always >> does that and I don't understand why. Drive letters change. Some >> people hard code 'em in their scripts. This is a recipe for errors. Other >> people say sometimes that some Windows apps can't work with UNC >> paths. I don't know of any that have this problem anymore. Q:/ doesn't tell >> me where this directly is located...
> No reason, really, other than the fact that Windoze forces us to access > physical storage devices via the silly drive letters . What? Where did you get this impression? This is not true for 18 years at least. > Not using drive letters would mean I have two different presentations: one > for local storage and one for remote storage. > When in Rome . . . > And is there a way to mount a network share without a drive letter, using > cygwin? > More importantly, is it possible to mount a network share, using cygwin, so > that it becomes visible/available in explorer? > The scope of mounting seems to be limited to a process (tree). Every service > must mount separately. > Or have I missed something? It's always available in Explorer. It is capable of handling UNC paths transparently. Since Win '95. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 22.12.2012, <18:23> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
