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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:41:11 -0500
To: "Mark Boulding" <mboulding AT ptcbio DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Permissions problem on Win2K?
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At 04:43 PM 11/22/2003, Mark Boulding you wrote:
>I have successfully downloaded and installed cygwin on a Win2000 machine. However when I run cygwin it is unable to create a home directory for me, and also unable to write any of the personalization files. Cygwin tries to create a subdirectory /cygdrive/z to store this information, but "mkdir" fails. On closer inspection, I discovered that (1) I have no write rights to the /cygdrive directory, and (2) no one seems to own it (owner and group id is just "0"). Usual commands for fixing these things ("chown," "chmod") do not have any effect.
> 
>Oddly enough within the /cygdrive directory are subdirectories representing other drives on my system, including a flash card. All those directories show either myself or the administrator as their owner, and I can read to and write from them.
> 
>Any help appreciated. I suspect a some kind of broken interaction between the Win2K security/authentication system and Cygwin, but can't figure out how to fix it. Note that the drive on which cygwin is installed is owned by me, and I have granted everyone all rights to it -- and these rights propagate to all children.
> 


OK, you've explained the problem but didn't include any concrete information
about your environment and configuration, so it's not really worthwhile for
someone to make suggestions of things to look for.  See 
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html> and report back with the information 
requested if you haven't found a resolution.



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