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Subject: Re: ping "Operation not permitted" on Windows 7
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> From: David Arnstein <arnstein AT pobox DOT com>
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:07:54 -0400
> Subject: ping "Operation not permitted" on Windows 7
> Using Windows 7 Professional, cygwin, mintty,and bash. All are up to date.
> I am getting this:
>    $ type ping
>    ping is hashed (/usr/bin/ping)
>    $ ping www.microsoft.com
>    ping: socket: Operation not permitted
>
> If I launch mintty "Run as administrator" from Windows, then no such
> problem occurs.
>
> I have tried re-installing the "ping" package via cygwin setup.exe. No
> improvement.
>
> Output from "cygcheck -s -v -r" attached. Any suggestions?

What we did was to simply delete the cygwin ping and fall back to the
windows ping. Works fine.

Ping uses raw sockets which is something that is probably
understandable that Windows 7 blocks.

Stephen

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