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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:20:45 +0000 (UTC)
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If I ssh (as root) into my Windows 2003 box running Cygwin and then in the 
Cygwin shell create a network share, then things don't quite work as I 
expected..

root AT brandy /
$ net use s: \\\\beech.mydomain.com\\svctools
The command completed successfully.
root AT brandy /
$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
C:\cygwin\bin         78148160  11690696  66457464  15% /usr/bin
C:\cygwin\lib         78148160  11690696  66457464  15% /usr/lib
C:\cygwin             78148160  11690696  66457464  15% /
c:                    78148160  11690696  66457464  15% /cygdrive/c
d:                      389140    389140         0 100% /cygdrive/d
df: `/cygdrive/s': Permission denied

Curiously, you can cd into subdirectories on the S: drive, but you can't list 
the root directory on S:

root AT brandy /
$ cd /cygdrive/s

root AT brandy /cygdrive/s
$ ls
ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied

root AT brandy /cygdrive/s
$ cd perl

root AT brandy /cygdrive/s/perl
$ ls
docs                                   tc


which seems a bit weird....   if you go to the S: drive in an native windows 
command box, then dir S:  works fine.....

Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?  Why is permission denied in 
the /cygdrive/s directory even though one can cd into its subdirectories?
many thanks



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