* Woody Setzer (Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:28:36 -0400) > I am running Mate under Cygwin on a Windows 7 Professional system, > and > want to connect to a Linux server running on our local network. > Ultimately, I will be connecting through my Agency's VPN, which is so > slow as to render using X over that conduit useless. So, I want to > access my files on the Linux computer's filesystem via sftp. I can get > files from the Cygwin command line from that server using sftp, and > can login via ssh. I have the gvfs package installed under Cygwin. The > Cygwin installation on my Windows machine was updated 23 April 2015. > > I have tried two approaches to setting up an sftp based file system on > Cygwin. The first was to run Mate on the Windows box, and use the > "Connect to Server" dialog, specifying SSH for the file system. that > results in the error "Unable to spawn SSH program". The second was to > use gvfs-mount from the command line, which results in a similar > error: > > $ gvfs-mount sftp://xx.xx.xxx > Error mounting location: Unable to spawn SSH program > > Should this work in Cygwin? Is there some configuration I need to attend to? > I spent the afternoon with Google search, and have found very little about > this.
User-space file systems (mostly fuse based in Linux to my knowledge) are not going to work in Cygwin. This means you can mount a Cygwin SFTP server resource on Linux but not vice versa. Thorsten -- 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
