X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45635474.2010605@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:33:08 -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: Cygwin > 1.5.18-1 fails on network and removable drives References: <003201c70da1$66897a50$0b00000a AT Wampum> In-Reply-To: <003201c70da1$66897a50$0b00000a@Wampum> 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-Id: 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 Ken Turner wrote: > Versions of "cygwin" up to 1.5.18-1 have worked just fine for me (Windows XP). > All later versions fail to work for me as follows: > > o Attempts to list ("ls") network drives (Windows shares) fail with > "permission denied". My home folder is a network drive supported by SMB; this > is supported by a Unix server running TAS. Cygwin 1.5.18-1 and earlier work > just fine with CYGWIN=ntsec. I have tried all combinations of > "(no)ntsec"/"(no)smbntsec"/"(no)ntea" with later versions of Cygwin, but I > alwasy get "permission denied". > > o Attempts to access removable drives (e.g. floppy, USB memory) behave > bizarrely. I either see "permission denied" or I see the raw device when I try > to list the contents. I discovered that unsetting "ntea" solves this problem, > perhaps because these external drives are FAT and not NTFS. But setting "ntea" > wasn't a problem until I progressed beyond Cygwin 1.5.18-1. > > I can't find anything on the archives that seems to address this, and I've > exhausted all the things I can think of. Something significant seems to have > changed in Cygwin about six months ago. Any thoughts? Thanks! > Perhaps have a look at the strace output (and compare before and after if necessary). Maybe has some relevance, though I realize there are some significant differences. -- 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/