How to go to remote directory in Cygwin?

How to go to remote directory in Cygwin? I'm using the latest version of Cygwin to try to cd into a network drive on Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3. The path in Windows Explorer to this directory is something like:
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"I had the same symptoms. The problem appeared to be related to running the application in administration mode. As soon as I turned off the option to 'Run this program as an administrator' and restarted the application I was able to access the network drives via the /cygdrive/ directory.

Note: I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2 but I would bet this would work on windows7 and up.

Note: You must open the properties dialog of the binary itself (ie mintty.exe) and not the short cut to access the administration option for the application.

Hope this helps!"