On 17 April 2007 12:52, John Daniel Doucette wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> I have a similar problem under WinXP. Almost always, mapped network
> drives are invisible under /cygdrive. Ie. after booting if J: is a
> mapped drive "ls /cygdrive/j" gives "ls: /cygdrive/j: No such file or
> directory". However it ALWAYS becomes visible if you open explorer
> and click on the drive! Ie.
>
> Reboot, then ...
>
> $ ls /cygdrive/j
> ls: /cygdrive/j: No such file or directory
>
> ... open windows explorer and click on J drive, then...
>
> $ ls /cygdrive/j
> dir1 dir2 dir3 file1 file2
>
> I haven't found any other solution yet.
When you create the network drive, tick "Reconnect at logon".
Alternatively, run the "net use J:" command in a cmd.exe shell, or from
cygwin shell run "cmd /c net use J:", to get it to mount on demand.
cheers,
DaveK
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