On 2021-02-07, Cary Lewis via Cygwin wrote: > Is there a way to access files from a WSL 2 Linux distro from Cygwin? > > From Windows: > > \\wsl$\Ubuntu is accessible from Windows Explorer, but cygwin does not seem > to recogonize: > > //wsl\$
I use following fstab to get access to WSL 1: //wsl$/debian /wsl/debian ntfs binary,posix=0,user,noacl,notexec 0 0 //wsl$/ubuntu /wsl/ubuntu ntfs binary,posix=0,user,noacl,notexec 0 0 //wsl$/alpine /wsl/alpine ntfs binary,posix=0,user,noacl,notexec 0 0 There are problems to access some files (their attributes) but they are special like /dev... I have never tried WSL 2. I believe it uses P9 network fs. Probably you have to use full distro names as reported by: wslconfig.exe /list not just '//wsl$'. See following: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl-in-windows-10-version-1903/ Announce of P9 server for WSL compatible with UNC. Cygwin works with UNC according to the doc, that's why I tried it with fstab. -- http://defun.work/ -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
