title: Right way to mount nfs partition on windows using cygwin
body: <p>I am trying to mount an nfs partition onto my Windows server 2012 which has cygwin running. I went through quite a few links, such as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10855758/mount-while-using-cygwin">&#39;mount&#39; while using Cygwin</a> but none have helped. I want to mount over nfs 10.x.x.x/foo into a partition on Windows, either inside c:/bar or to /tmp/bar.</p>
  
  <p>On cygwin, I used the command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mount //10.x.x.x/foo /tmp/bar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The mount command goes through, and the output of mount is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ mount 
  //10.x.x.x/foo on /tmp/bar type unknown (binary,user) 
  C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) 
  C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) 
  C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) 
  C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when I try to cd or ls into the directory, I do not see anything.</p>
  
  <pre><code>ls /tmp/bar 
  ls: cannot access /tmp/bar: No such file or directory
  
  $ ls -la /tmp/
  ls: cannot access /tmp/vdnet: No such file or directory
  total 4
  drwxrwxrwt+ 1 Administrator None 0 Apr  5 10:34 .
  drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Administrator None 0 Jul  9  2015 ..
  d?????????? ? ?             ?    ?            ? bar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is the right way to mount nfs partitions using cygwin?</p>