X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=CH+C9YFmSnJGFD4G J9tIaVYuA2YyAj1F7q/hLTQN/uHge2G4wwDKLYwOrBIcTmGoQrYUJqQM0KJToiQc XNnLCA7qQ0T20LCqx1tWYqdZyur/94wZYLzifydqmyddWCQboxCxPX5Ztb5qXUTD DZefnO1W51UWW1NRgKsCMbmMzj0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=IT+awPOl+BmSV18z+MAC6z dp4QY=; b=TouBpDKMAXTLxw6qjAtTUIgk7BBL7Ce6ptiHQ07m20Je2FrZWneUjC x3DqIMzeM6X4GjAavAi7XOHFHXcXswdYWWVqT90urvHIQbvKTADr+Myn7m6aroMd 2QM+yN64wV2e2kUDXhnE8b5yQA3I0wZ8mrpgXF3iMsa2D86QRFE+0= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Greetings, browse, unc, drives X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Subject: Re: Setup's local package directory on network share To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <578f-59fb2300-23-38cb1240 AT 198678207> <762253272 DOT 20171102181420 AT yandex DOT ru> From: Thomas Wolff Message-ID: <651aeb23-8b04-ede3-515c-3707892f312b@towo.net> Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 23:22:43 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <762253272.20171102181420@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:ry8zm/rP4BA=:QJ4Mk/sdQx+aexKa/zcH82 pU+/SYf0MSs8FnqRRjpM9qgg8n6Psfux2hAe1+Z7yYtFVzyjC7XxiAa6xSl6Iiba3bVJoLXaw SUmjc6uSnU0Tm1m8w7WZtzD4mgelwb16lJfksp0c+bpWhBcODytcmi5P1fHCCAjXEtKaGi9ra myL0tJkhsJqWlZcpAYfdCuymrhGzwepYmq76L5+nd2wKUWAV4PFSCPUWK5jerkN+ckZyfLu1w hafCB+V0hh9mFVmQaJgmv6Yt2SXkKlMMfDeaZg0dORMW2aC8MoLRDdFIYW6dllN6yd6+GHXLU GXX4bjg1K4PKQ1NO1ukqoTByIpqEpRblP8AL9auM0rNNnsjpfSK1mcUi+4p6vJ8vnrLjAjhrE lOjbm2UsyurwAeaMy4Z2ljXf7CxnkAssKXv2YwRH2lIOqV7qfNsau1l06TqWtJE8sBiNKcfP7 xI+nyaUirbCJKalw3ks1c9AgtUJjiidy9emISspTeuq5aNWqRX74ZqhDQlcCLeSstIWtLFjmg 9euJ4q4OA75rrBDWSJwKROp7vcXXE8Y/sxyyRAyX+BANz8CobLPX17A9Hzlsk0P3lP5BjvGOK H0Injz/qJs0cMRPrW5MrsJFKWiKVMgU5W9uC+XfKnhlQNeohqyw3yi1HQsgaAqe4ph/w6o6Rt cL+7NQM0ms9TDOl1546+qLfeOL3pWB0G/UTG9I5AUl8sDujOvB+PbUdTyxNbfwzSMs52WikYv r7Oq4H/vwhQjGKL9+Y1xbqqjGE9xkpCUSUhrPP8DkwVWlaJpsntD1Spm7Ic= X-IsSubscribed: yes Am 02.11.2017 um 16:14 schrieb Andrey Repin: > Greetings, Aaron Digulla! > >> I would like to share the local package cache with other people. >> When browse folders in the respective page in setup.exe, no network shares are visible. >> When I manually enter the path (using a mapped drive), I get a dialog: >> "Directory S:\cygwin\Downloads does not exist, would you like me to create >> it?" which is wrong since the folder exists. > No, it isn't wrong, since you are using mapped drive, which may not exist in a > different user session. You could also avoid switching the user with setup --no-admin. Same problem if the installation target (the cygwin root) is on a network drive. Thomas > There's an easy solution, though: stop using mapped drives. You should have > been, for 17 years now. > >> When I click "yes", I get an error "Couldn't create directory. Is drive full or read-only?" >> I can create a folder (and delete it) from Explorer, so it's not a Windows permission problem. >> What is the problem here? I searched the documentation and it mentions a >> couple of problems with network shares and Windows authentication but that when Cygwin is already running. > Store setup.exe on the same network share and use UNC path to access it. > Then "other people" could use both a fresh package cache and a fresh setup.exe > together. > You can even restrict write access to the share, if desired, then "other > people" could use it to install from downloaded archives, and selected > administrators with write access could refresh package archive. > > -- 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