Cygwin 1.7.15: Cannot access mapped drive

Question

Folks, My Windows 2003 Server machine maps a shared network folder to a drive letter. For example:

\\192.168.1.3\d$\logs maps to Z:

I am able to get to this drive using the Windows commandline. This also used to work with Cygwin 1.5. After the upgrade to 1.7, none of the following works from Cygwin:

Z:\
Z:/
/cygdrive/z

When I list the mountpoints in cygwin, by typing mount, I don't see the Z drive. I do see the physical drives:

C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
E: on /cygdrive/e type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)

I tried to manually mount the Z drive: mount Z:/ /cygdrive/z/ -o posix=0 This brings up Z drive in mount listing as "unknown" and I still cannot cd into it:

...
Z: on /cygdrive/z type unknown (binary,posix=0,user)
...

How do I make this drive show up? Any ideas?

Thanks for your help and insights.

Answer 1

Share Mounts are running in the user context and are not necessarily available to all processes (especially if you run the cygwin process under another account for example).

While there are possibilities to mount the share in cygwin, wouldnt it be sufficient to simply access it? You can use the following notation:

//192.168.1.3/d$/logs