X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:31:10 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin permissions problem on a network drive Message-ID: <20110706063110.GA23717@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Jul 6 11:43, Bill Metzenthen wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> If I now try to use cygwin to create anything then it fails (despite > >> it reporting that I have rwx permissions for the directory): > > > > For now, set the mount point for this drive to "noacl". If you're > > accessing the share via /cygdrive, create a distinct mount point for it. > > I'm not sure that I'm doing this the right way. No. I meant a distinct mount point, *different* from your cygdrive prefix. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive This works: H: /h xyz binary,noacl 0 0 none /mnt cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 Or this: H: /myhome xyz binary,noacl 0 0 none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple