On Jan 26 12:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to mount a remote directory in cygwin. When I issue a
> command like this
>
> mount <ip-address>:<somepath> /cygdrive/d/<directory>
>
> it allways tells me
>
> mount: /cygdrive/d/<directory>: Invalid argument.
>
> What's wrong here? Is it even possible with cygwin to mount nfs-directories?
Not with Cygwin alone. You need OS support for NFS drives, which
you can get by using Microsoft's SFU ("Services for Unix") tools.
Other than that I'd suggest to install and use a Samba server on
the remote machine, which allows to use the remote drives with
a stock Windows system.
Corinna
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