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Re: "net use" (and "net config")
On 2008-01-16, cuicui <cuicui.oizo@free.fr> wrote:
>>> Is there any way to get mapped drives and public-key
>>> authentication working together?
>>
>> Perhaps I should add that the problem doesn't exist under
>> Win2K: "net use" works fine regardless of the ssh
>> authentication method.
>
> This is a bit offlist but maybe that's because under Windows
> 2000, network drives are available for the whole system once
> mounted. With Windows XP, the very same function used to map a
> network drives jailed them in the current "userland".
>
> It means that you can have the same (network) drive letter
> assigned multiple times, one in each userland.
And when logged in using public key authentication, you don't
have a "userland"?
> This is particularly painful when running programs that
> elevate their privileges as far as the elevated process is not
> aware of the network drives of the user...
>
> FYI, the "net config workstation" command isn't working from a
> ssh shell.
It works fine under XP when logged in using password
authentication.
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