I am getting some confusing behaviour from cygwin that I don't
understand. Essentially, UNC files names appear to be behaving very
differently between the console and when sshing into the machine.
I have the following set up (--> means a symlink)
~/mnt/webpages --> //homepages/with/unc/name
~/documents/website/published --> ~/mnt/webpages
~/documents/website/some.html
Now, if in ~/documents/website, I do
cp some.html published
it all works. My document gets published to the UNC location as I
expect.
However, if I ssh into my desktop machine, things no longer work
properly. If in ~/documents/website I try
cd published
I get "Permission denied". If I do
cp some.html published
the symlink gets replaced with a file "published" having the contents
of some.html. Also
cd ~/mnt/webpages
gives permission denied.
This problem seems highly specific. I get this only when sshing into
my desktop machine. Last night I had one shell open on the local
machine, running an ssh session into the remote machine, with another
shell inside a VNC desktop session running directly on the remote
machine. The ssh shell seemed unable to cope with the UNC names.
I'm very confused. I always assumed a shell was a shell whether it was
writing to a local terminal or through an ssh session.
Can anyone help?
Phil
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