X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_RW,TW_WX,TW_XR,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Andy Hall" To: Subject: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions? Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:40:06 -0700 Message-ID: <9872BD92701C494686D002F1620610D0@ahallpc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 I have a vanilla 1.7.7 installation on Windows XP Professional which is a standalone machine not in a domain. The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files have been refreshed from scratch. The system has a remote file system (Samba) mounted as F: via the normal Windows mechanism for mapping network drives. With the default /etc/fstab file which has no specific mounts, the mount command shows $ mount C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) F: on /cygdrive/f type smbfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) and ls -l of /cygdrive/f shows $ ls -l /cygdrive/f total 2048 drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases If instead, I map F: to /cygdrive/c with the following entry in /etc/fstab F: /cygdrive/f smbfs binary,noacl 0 0 mount shows $ mount C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) F: on /cygdrive/f type smbfs (binary,noacl) C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) And ls -l of /cygdrive/f shows $ ls -l /cygdrive/f total 2048 drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases If instead I now map F: to /repos1 via the following in /etc/fstab F: /repos1 smbfs binary,noacl 0 0 Mount shows $ mount C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) F: on /repos1 type smbfs (binary,noacl) C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) And ls -l of repos1 shows $ ls -l /repos1 total 2048 drwxr-xr-x 36 ahall None 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds drwxr-xr-x 17 ahall None 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases Why am I getting -1 for the uid and gid when I mount to /cygdrive/f but not to /repos1? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple