Subject: RE: cygwin nfs server
From: Larry Hall <[email-masked]>
To: "Povolotsky, Alexander" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "'Hugh Sparks'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:49:25 -0400

At 08:44 PM 8/27/2004, you wrote:
>To check the theory that Z drive is confusing Cygwin,
>it is "foundable" using "ls" from "Cygwin bash shell" (via c: drive
>reference):
>$ ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/sbin/PORTMAP.EXE
>/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/sbin/PORTMAP.EXE
>
>Executing it from "Cygwin bash shell"
>
>$ /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/sbin/PORTMAP.EXE
>
>did not produce the process running 
>
>$ strace  /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/sbin/PORTMAP.EXE
>strace.exe: error creating process
>C:/cygwin/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/sbin/PORTMAP.EXE, (error 3)
>
>What is the meaning of (error 3)?

$ net helpmsg 3

The system cannot find the path specified.

>Then I executed PORTMAP.EXE from the "DOS" shell (again executing
>PORTMAP.EXE via c: drive reference)
>
>D:\Profiles\apovolot>c:\cygwin\usr\sbin\PORTMAP.EXE
>
>The executable was found but the execution of PORTMAP.EXE produced the
>following error:
>"portmap.exe - Unable To Locate Component"
>"This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found."
>
>However cygwin1.dll  does reside in Z:\cygwin\bin (which is c:\cygwin\bin )
>it is also "foundable" using "ls" from "Cygwin bash shell":
>$ ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dll
>/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dll

But it's apparently not in your path for some reason.  Add it to the Windows
system environment variables and see if that clears up your problem.  

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