Let's just say that today was worse that yesterday - I'm accumulating a list of problem reports from disgruntled users with domain server file access problems, plus a growing list of problem symtoms I'm finding for myself as I try to get some kind of handle on what's actually going on. Thus far, my most concrete deduction is that I'm getting a headache and a strong urge to take sick leave.
Setup.exe ran fine for me when I downloaded to a local disk drive on another PC at the office. Our domain is not currently an appropriate test environment for it. Doug > Hello Doug, > > Friday, April 05, 2002, 2:51:16 PM, you wrote: > > DW> Hi, > > DW> It appears that the problem with downloads on the W2k PC is the > DW> result of one or more problems on the PC itself and between W2k > DW> PC's in general and the NT Domain Server. The download dir is on > DW> a server share and it always worked w/o problems on and before > DW> 18Mar02. Naturally, my first assumption when I saw the changes > DW> in the operation of setup.exe was that it was at fault. > > DW> Now, I doubt it! > > Ok - but more information is needed.... Feel free to share more > on these problems that you talk about. > > Do you think it may be permissions problem ? > > DW> A segment of the log you asked for is: > > [snip] > > DW> 2002/04/05 02:05:16 mbox fatal: Can't open P:\Cygwin-v1_1_x/ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.uni- > DW> erlangen.de%2fpub%2fpc%2fgnuwin32%2fcygwin%2fmirrors%2fcygnus/latest/ > DW> automake/automake-devel/automake-devel-1.5b-1.tar.bz2.tmp for writing: > DW> No such file or directory > DW> 2002/04/05 02:09:11 Ending cygwin install > > Nothing here to indicate that this is a problem with setup.exe, but also > nothing which denies it :) > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
