Accessing WSL Shares

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tquest1234
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Accessing WSL Shares

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Hello, I'm trying to access my WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) folders from within Far.

WSL is a built-in Windows feature, I use it a lot.

Since Windows 10 1903, you can access your files like this: \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home, and browse all your files.

But that doesn't work in Far, I also tried net:, I think it shows up as "Plan 9 Network Provider", but selecting it just says "The network name cannot be found".

Does anyone have any ideas?
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Post by Yegor »

I have this issue from time to time. I just open and close bash console (this reinitializes Windows Subsystem Linux) and after that I can access Linux folders by running

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cd \\wsl$\Ubuntu-18.04\home\
(not net:, 'net:' won't work).
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Accessing WSL Shares

Post by tquest1234 »

Thank you, I still couldn't get it to work but when you said it *should* work I kept trying!

I needed to do this:

> wsl -t Ubuntu

Then re-opened, then it worked.
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