X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <455E1EFC.2090804@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:43:40 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/u': No such file or directory References: <20061117194015 DOT 94213 DOT qmail AT web56305 DOT mail DOT re3 DOT yahoo DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20061117194015.94213.qmail@web56305.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 PoWah Wong wrote: > * From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" > * To: cygwin at cygwin dot com > * Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:04:47 -0500 > * Subject: Re: mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/u': No such file or directory > * References: <20061117163224 DOT 83187 DOT qmail AT web56308 DOT mail DOT re3 DOT yahoo DOT com> > * Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com > > PoWah Wong wrote: > > After clicking the Cygwin icon on my windows XP desktop, this message appeared: > > mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/u': No such file or directory > Copying skeleton files. > These files are for the user to personalise > their cygwin experience. > > > These will never be overwritten. > > /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory > /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory > /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory > bash: cd: /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory > > > powah AT ROSE /etc/skel > > $ > > Somehow Cygwin depend on the network drive U is connected. > Is there a way to change the dependence from drive U to drive C? > > > > 1. Change your Windows domain user to have another "home" directory. > > 2. Edit your '/etc/passwd' file to point to the directory you want > to be your home. > > > 3. Recreate your '/etc/passwd' file telling it to use a different > path for your home (see 'man mkpasswd' for details on switches to > do this). > > > Only (1) is transparent across all invocations of 'mkpasswd'. > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I use Windows XP Home. > How to change Windows domain user to have another "home" directory? You have to talk to you domain admin. > I added the "HOME" and "HOMEDRIVE" environment variables by the "Control Panel", the message "/usr/bin/install: cannot create directory /cygdrive/u: No such file or directory" disappeared. > However, it still want to use /cygdrive/u for ssh. > > $ ssh root AT 172 DOT 20 DOT 11 DOT 200 > Could not create directory '/cygdrive/u/.ssh'. Cygwin will only look at $HOME. $HOMEDRIVE is extraneous for Cygwin. 'ssh' can't look at environment variables. It's a chicken-and-egg thing. That's why I recommended making changes to your '/etc/passwd' file. 'ssh' only looks at the home directory mentioned there. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/