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Re: cygwin permissions problem on a network drive
On Jul 6 11:43, Bill Metzenthen wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> If I now try to use cygwin to create anything then it fails (despite
> >> it reporting that I have rwx permissions for the directory):
> >
> > For now, set the mount point for this drive to "noacl". If you're
> > accessing the share via /cygdrive, create a distinct mount point for it.
>
> I'm not sure that I'm doing this the right way.
No. I meant a distinct mount point, *different* from your cygdrive
prefix. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive
This works:
H: /h xyz binary,noacl 0 0
none /mnt cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
Or this:
H: /myhome xyz binary,noacl 0 0
none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
Corinna
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