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Re: accessing shared drives when logged in via ssh
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:45:58AM -0700, Scott Evans wrote:
> > In my case, I'm running on a workgroup and the shares on other machines
> > are shared to *everyone*. So it seems like I should indeed be able to get
> > to them, regardless of who I am.
>
> Everyone is not everyone :-)
>
> There's a difference between shares which allow anonymous access and
> shares which allow access to every authenticated user. The latter
> are demanding password authentication and therefore are not open to
> processes under a non-password context switch. Of course I don't
> know which of them are used in your environment.
I don't either, since I'm using "simple networking" under XP for the
time being. Under the "sharing" settings, I have "share this folder
on the network" checked, and "allow network users to change my files".
Those are the only options available with "simple networking".
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scott evans :: www.antisleep.com
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