X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:43:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Dick Repasky To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Vista: mount/umount -s permission denied In-Reply-To: <46CDC174.90901@cygwin.com> Message-ID: References: <46CDC174.90901@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Dick Repasky wrote: >> >> On Windows Vista Enterprise, I consistently receive "permission denied" >> errors when using cygwin mount/umount commands on system mounts >> (mount/umount -s ...). I cannot mount novel system mount points (e.g., >> mount -s -b C:\\bonga /usr/local) or unmount existing system mount points >> (e.g., umount -s /usr/lib). The same is true from the cygwin bash prompt, >> from within a cygwin bash script, from the windows command prompt >> (C:\cygwin\bin\mount -s ...) or from within a windows .bat file. >> >> The system is a single-user system, and my identity is that under which >> setup.exe was run to install cygwin. >> >> I have not had this issue with cygwin under XP. >> >> User mounts (mount/umount -u) work just fine for me on Vista. >> >> Are system mounts supposed to be unmutable? If so, oh. If not, is there >> a work-around, or what have I done wrongly? > > > Try turning off UAC. Otherwise, give your user the ability to add/remove/ > update all registry entries. > Yes, UAC is the issue, thanks. Dick Dick Repasky Center for Computational Cytomics UITS Cubicle 101.08 Indiana University USA rrepasky@indiana.edu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/