Re: Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

On 08/08/2010 12:40 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> Quoting "Jeremy Bopp" <jeremy@bopp.net>:
>
> > It sounds like your Samba configuration requires authentication in order
> > to access this share.  Are you able to access the share as
> > \\server\share using the Windows file explorer without first mapping the
> > share to a drive or authenticating in some other way?  Cygwin uses
> > Windows to handle this sort of operation, so if Windows can't access the
> > share without authentication, neither can Cygwin.
> >
> > If authentication is required, you'll either need to map the share to a
> > drive letter or reconfigure your Samba share to allow guests to have
> > read and possibly write access depending on your needs.
>
> Thank you - this has pointed me in the right direction...
>
> The main problem I've got now is how to allow write access to the 
> share from this scenario without allowing it from outside... but I am 
> working on that.
Might you be able to do something like:

net use \\server\share /user:[<domain>\]<username> <password>

To access the share supplying the username and password so that you can 
then use the UNC path proper? For example:

Pluto:net use \\\\jupiter\\Video /user:<username> <password>
The command completed successfully.

Pluto:net use
New connections will not be remembered.


Status       Local     Remote                    Network

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OK                     \\jupiter\Video           Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.

Pluto:
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