X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Phillip Lord Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:02:55 +0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received-SPF: pass (cheviot3.ncl.ac.uk: 128.240.150.78 is authenticated by a trusted mechanism) X-Newcastle-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Postmaster AT newcastle DOT ac DOT uk for more information X-Newcastle-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Newcastle-MailScanner-MCPCheck: MCP-Clean, MCP-Checker (score=0, required 1) X-Newcastle-MailScanner-From: phillip DOT lord AT newcastle DOT ac DOT uk Subject: UNC file names, symlinks and ssh X-NCL-Spam-Status: No Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I am getting some confusing behaviour from cygwin that I don't understand. Essentially, UNC files names appear to be behaving very differently between the console and when sshing into the machine. I have the following set up (--> means a symlink) ~/mnt/webpages --> //homepages/with/unc/name ~/documents/website/published --> ~/mnt/webpages ~/documents/website/some.html Now, if in ~/documents/website, I do cp some.html published it all works. My document gets published to the UNC location as I expect. However, if I ssh into my desktop machine, things no longer work properly. If in ~/documents/website I try cd published I get "Permission denied". If I do cp some.html published the symlink gets replaced with a file "published" having the contents of some.html. Also cd ~/mnt/webpages gives permission denied. This problem seems highly specific. I get this only when sshing into my desktop machine. Last night I had one shell open on the local machine, running an ssh session into the remote machine, with another shell inside a VNC desktop session running directly on the remote machine. The ssh shell seemed unable to cope with the UNC names. I'm very confused. I always assumed a shell was a shell whether it was writing to a local terminal or through an ssh session. Can anyone help? Phil -- 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/