From: svr AT cagent DOT com (Ramesh Subrahmaniam) Subject: problem with ownership of files under NT4.0 under b18 15 Dec 1997 14:07:57 -0800 Message-ID: <3495953D.A66EEFFB.cygnus.gnu-win32@cagent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I installed NT4.0 Spervice Pack 3 on a SCSI disk with the FAT file system. I am having a problem compiling (with gnumake) the files installed on this file system. I have tried NTFS also without great success. When I do a ls -l on the source files it always shows the owner as being 0 and group as being everyone. The first source of the bug is when I try to do a make it complains that I do not own the files. I tried to login as administrator and I go into a DOS window and try to run chown. It always complains: I did the following combinations: chown 500 bullit . Error: bullit: Invalid Argument chown svr bullit. Error : Invalid User chown -v 500 bullit. Says changing bullit owner to 500 and then says bullit Invalid argument. I then tried NTFS because the next natural thing might be to suspect the file system. The owner of the file now became 544 which is in range of the UIDs when I type mkpasswd -l. But still chown does not work. The next thing I tried is to modify the permissions. I did a chmod +w . It failed silently meaning it did not change the permissions. I did an ls -l to verify this. Now I wanted to make a tmp directory and etc directory on my /. My / is not a the C: drive instead I want it to be D:. I have installed NT4.0 on a SCSI disk which I added. How do I change my / mount point to be D: instead of C:. I tried the mount command as follows: mount d: / : Error fails with Device busy So I did the following: umount C:. Failed silently; did not do anything. umount /. Failed siliently again. I am trying desperately to get this working for me. Can you please help? I will also be happy to go over any FAQs for these kind of problems. Also how I modify the source to see what the problem is? Where can I find the cygwin.dll source code? Thanks Ramesh - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".