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Re: Resolution: Re: Can't access windows shares when logged into Win2K via cygwin sshd
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself at ix dot netcom dot com>,"Cygwin-L" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:00:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: Resolution: Re: Can't access windows shares when logged into Win2K via cygwin sshd
- References: <20030421190813.GK16154@ganymede> <20030421224823.GO16154@ganymede>
Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:08:13PM +0100, Karsten M. Self
> (kmself at ix dot netcom dot com) wrote:
>> I've researched via Google and found a few references to this problem,
>> but no apparent solution.
>>
>> I am connection from a GNU/Linux system to a Win2K box via SSH. The
>> Win2K system is running Cygwin and the Cygwin sshd daemon. I've
>> followed Mike Erdeley's recommendations in setting up SSH, including
>> renaming my standard 2K userid to something more unixlike.
>>
>> On the 2K box, from within legacy MS Windows, I can access shares. I've
>> "mapped" several of these via symlinks as /net/<host>/<share>/. Cygwin
>> under windows can access these shares.
>>
>> Cygwin via remote ssh cannot access these shares. Cygwin via *local*
>> ssh (ssh localhost; ls /net/<host>/<share> *does* work.
>>
>> I've seen suggestions that the Win2K 'NET' command may be of some use
>> here, but I'm unfamiliar with its syntax, and it also appears to be
>> acting differently under a remote SSH session than it does locally on
>> the Win2K box.
>>
>> Suggestions appreciated.
>
> In an offlist response, I was asked whether or not I was not using
> password authentication. Indeed I wasn't, relying instead on RSAKEY
> with ssh-agent for passwordless connections.
> This is apparently a known bug with Cygwin's SSH:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No, an unavoidable consequence of Windows' authentication mechanism.
> you can access the remote host but not shares
> connected to it. Falling back on password auth avoids this issue,
> though it reduces the convenience factor.
Max.
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