On 19 April 2007 18:35, Kevin Markle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anybody know of a simple way to map network drives from withing a
> cygwin script? :o)
You can invoke the standard "net use" command with only the slight
complication of having to either escape or quote the backslashes, or use
forward slashes. Examples: (slightly forged, for privacy reasons)
/tmp $ net view \\\\tinytim
Shared resources at \\tinytim
Share name Type Used as Comment
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
all-homes Disk S: all-homes on Tinytim
arch_preambles Disk Architecture data sets
cad Disk CAD installation directory
hardware Disk
lab Disk O:
sys_test Disk System test
sysadmin Disk
~dk Disk Home Directory
The command completed successfully.
/tmp $ net view '\\tinytim'
Shared resources at \\tinytim
Share name Type Used as Comment
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
all-homes Disk S: all-homes on Tinytim
arch_preambles Disk Architecture data sets
cad Disk CAD installation directory
hardware Disk
lab Disk O:
sys_test Disk System test
sysadmin Disk
~dk Disk Home Directory
The command completed successfully.
/tmp $ net use X: '\\tinytim\sysadmin'
The command completed successfully.
/tmp $ ls /cygdrive/x
Bakbone NetApp
Certance Network Diagrams
Cisco Phaser7300DN_SpecialPrint.pdf
Correspondence SNAP
IM845G Motherboard Users Guide.pdf Software_Licensing
Installs tmp
Manuals tmpbkup
MySQL winventory
cheers,
DaveK
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