How can I map a \\wsl$\ type unc path to a windows drive letter?

Question

I'm using eclipse on windows to connect to files on a wsl, and I have run into what is apparently an eclipse bug which file names such as \wsl$\folder1\pom.xml get mangled. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=577938

A comment in the bug report suggests a possible workaround

A workaround is to map the UNC path to a drive letter, but this shouldn't be necessary

How would I do that?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/map-a-network-drive-in-windows-29ce55d1-34e3-a7e2-4801-131475f9557d — CherryDT, Jan 31 '22 at 17:11
Does this answer your question? [windows bat file error](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5949775/windows-bat-file-error) — Mo'ath Alshorman, Oct 24 '22 at 18:52

ian · Answer 1 · 2022-02-07T13:37:47.817

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I did it this way (drive j: was available)

net use j: \\wsl$\Ubuntu

Note that this is persistent, and if not deleted can cause wsl2 to restart by itself. After doing this I was able to access files on the Ubuntu distro from windows emacs.

to delete it:

net use /del j:

edited Feb 07 '22 at 13:37

answered Feb 05 '22 at 23:04

ian

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Also make sure you don't use a trailing backslash: `net use j: \\wsl$\Ubuntu\` fails. It also seems that mounting a subdirectory doesn't work either. – cdleonard Mar 08 '23 at 08:24

How can I map a \\wsl$\ type unc path to a windows drive letter?

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