X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_RW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4E3863D2.4010702@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:53:38 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin permissions problem on a network drive References: <20110802161013.164950@gmx.net> In-reply-to: <20110802161013.164950@gmx.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 8/2/2011 12:10 PM, spambouncer@gmx.de wrote: >> 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 > > > I'm having the same problems with my $HOME folder, which is on a network > share. I was able to create an extra mount point for the location, > unfortunately that didn't help with the original $HOME. Could you please > describe what I have to do circumvent the permission problem for $HOME? Access you $HOME folder through the new mount point (i.e. /h or /myhome) and you should be all set. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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