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Re: placing ~ on a network mapped drive.
Ray wrote:
Hi, I've been reading the FAQ's and searching through the archives,
but am not able to find a way to make the current user's home
directory go outside of \cygwin\home.
More specifically, I would like to have more control of user home
locations for backup and recovery puposes. Could anyone give some
insight into how to place the users' home directories outside of
\cygwin\home? Mapping to another drive would be preferable.
Personally I don't map anything to any kind of drive letter! Why would
you want to limit yourself to the 26 letters in the alphabet?
What I do is mount the remote share to /home:
$ mount -bsf //<server>/<share> /home
Then adjust /etc/passwd to use /home/<username>. Note that the above
mounting is for the share for all users such that an ls //server/share
would list all user's home directory.
Further you may need to adjust /etc/profile to set HOME to the value
from /etc/passwd.
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