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From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:36:21 -0500
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Subject: Re: Network drives & ssh access
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <> wrote:
> --On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:49 PM -0400 "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote:
> I've yet to get "net use" to work for me via cygwin.
>
> net use Z: \\W.X.Y.Z\Share <password>

Use forward slash or escape the back-slashes.

So, you'd try
net use Z: //W.X.Y.Z/Share <password>
or
net use Z: \\\\W.X.Y.Z\\Share <password>

Backslash is the escape character for bash.

-Jason

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