Ubuntu on Windows - accessing Network drives - solved

Hi folks

tinkering around with UBUNTU on Windows (WSL) -- great fun

You can access Networked drives without using SAMBA

This command does it :

sudo mount -t drvfs '\\server\share' /mnt/share

haven't worked out though how to "get at" Windows local drives.

This command works for getting at external USB's though
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/d (only needed ist time to create target directory for the mount)
$ sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d

to unmount safely.

$ sudo umount /mnt/d

For GUI programs see my other post in this thread

Some will run fine - others will need DBUS -- not implemented in WSL.

However a TCP get around (I think Linux users are Hacker by nature !!!)

sudo sed -i 's/<listen>.*<\/listen>/<listen>tcp:host=localhost,port=0<\/listen>/' /etc/dbus-1/session.conf

This will use tcp instead of Linux / Unix use of sockets.

I think this whole idea is quite fun -- probably not what Ms intended but a great idea having WSL in the first place -- am sure it will get better and better - especially with a few hacks and tweaks !!

Cheers
jimbo