Re: rsh on Windows XP : Please help

[Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>]

Matt-

Sounds like something I have dealt with a great deal. In short, the 
LocalSystem account (SYSTEM) on NT cannot access remote drives. If you 
run the service as another user, with the additional rights detailed in 
/usr/doc/cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README, does it work? Have you tried 
starting inetd from a command prompt? Does that work?

You can find lengthy discussion about this topic in the cygwin mailing 
list archives, best searched with google (rsh SYSTEM site:cygwin.com).
Or email me offlist for a more detailed commentary.

HTH,
Peter

Matthew Lee wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am having a rather difficult time getting rsh to work properly with
> networked drives.  I am using CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.3.3 (on Windows XP
> machine).
> 
> Basically, I cannot get rsh commands to access networked drives.
> 
> On the windows box, I have a samba-shared drive on a Linux box mapped as
> drive K.  I want to run a windows-based cross-compiler on the XP
> machine, but it needs to access source files on the Linux machine.  The
> cross-compiler is to be invoked by a build system (Aegis) running on the
> Linux machine.
> 
> Running cygwin locally on the windows box gives me (in part) this:
> 
> ~> mount
> k: on /cygdrive/k type user (binmode, noumount)
> 
> The inetutils README file indicates that this drive should be in the
> system mount table.  I tried : mount -s k: /cygdrive/k, which warned me
> that it would always be masked as user mode, but "mount" now display:
> 
> ~> mount
> k: on /cygdrive/k type system (textmode)
> 
> Locally, "ls k:" and "ls /cygdrive/k" commands work as expected.
> 
> 
> Now, if I rsh from a Linux box, I get (in part):
> 
> LinuxBox> rsh windowsBox mount
> k: on /cygdrive/k type system (textmode)
> 
> However, if I try:
> 
> LinuxBox> rsh windowsBox "ls k: 2>&1"
> or
> LinuxBox> rsh windowsBox "ls /cygdrive/k 2>&1"
> 
> I get:
> ls: k:: No such file or directory
> ls: /cygdrive/k: No such file or directory
> 
> If I telnet into the windows machine, supplying both a login name and
> password, I get exactly the same results as the above "mount" and "ls"
> commands supplied via rsh.
> 
> inetd is running on the XP machine as LocalSystem.
> 
> What's going wrong?  Any help appreciated!
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Matt
> Smart Container
> 
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