Question

I’m using VirtualBox to set up a windows 2008 server. I’d like to add a shared folder, but am running into problems.

Running this in DOS works:

net use t: \\vboxsrv\v-root

But in Cygwin:

$ net use t: "\\vboxsrv\v-root"
System error 53 has occurred.

The network path was not found.

I’ve also tried these:

$ net use t: \\vboxsrv\v-root
$ net use t: \\\\vboxsrv\\v-root

And I’ve tried creating a bat script containing the working DOS command, and executing it from cygwin. They all fail with the same error.

I need to do it through Cygwin, because I access the system via SSH, and land in a Cygwin environment. If there is any way to “break out” of cygwin temporarily from within Cygwin, that might be a way to go..

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Create a folder somewhere, like:

$> mkdir -p /mnt/t

Now you can us the mount program in cygwin, like so:

$> mount \\vboxsrv\v-root /mnt/t

Easy as 1,2,3 🙂