X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_RW,TW_YG,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:21:03 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: cygwin permissions problem on a network drive From: Bill Metzenthen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p652LOCU028969 I have problems with permissions on a network drive.  The drive is maintained by others and I have no control over the Windows permissions of the drive. I have a directory on the drive and I can use Windows Explorer to create and write files and subdirectories to it.  I can also use the Windows 'mkdir' and 'copy' commands to create directories and write files on the drive. Until recently I could do the same things from cygwin.  But that has changed... If I cd in cygwin to a empty subdirectory I have created on the drive then I find: $ ls -la total 0 drwx------+ 1 bmetzenthen Domain Users 0 Jul  4 11:51 . drwx------+ 1 bmetzenthen Domain Users 0 Jul  4 11:52 .. Where 'bmetzenthen' is me: $ whoami bmetzenthen If I now try to use cygwin to create anything then it fails (despite it reporting that I have rwx permissions for the directory): $ mkdir test mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Permission denied Similarly for 'touch': $ touch test touch: cannot touch `test': Permission denied If a subdirectory (or a file) is created by Windows Explorer then 'rmdir test' works.  Similarly 'touch test' and 'mv test test2'. Windows Explorer reports that the subdirectories (but not files) are read-only but silently fails to remove its read-only flag if I try that.  It reports that I have all permissions but not 'Full Control'. My cygwin installation is up to date and cygcheck -c reports all packages as OK. What should I ask the system administrator to change so that cygwin will once again work on this drive?  Perhaps there is some new setting (or an old one which has somehow changed) for cygwin that I have failed to notice? Bill Metzenthen -- 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