>> I'm seeing an "Permission denied" failure when using chmod on a mapped >> network drive. The problem doesn't occur on the local drive and if I use a >> Windows-style backslash in the name, it works?! >> >> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 EHOLMBER-XP 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin >> >> $ echo $CYGWIN >> nontsec > >Here's your problem. > ><http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>
Thanks for the pointer - I added the following to /etc/fstab and everything is working as expected again: none /cygdrive cygdrive text,posix=0,noacl 0 0 > >> eholm...@eholmber-xp /cygdrive/b >> $ touch test.txt >> >> $ ls -l test.txt >> -rwx------+ 1 eholmber Domain Users 0 2010-02-26 11:16 test.txt >> >> $ ls -l .\\test.txt >> -rw-r--r-- 1 eholmber Domain Users 0 2010-02-26 11:16 .\test.txt >> >> $ chmod +w test.txt >> chmod: changing permissions of `test.txt': Permission denied >> >> $ chmod +w .\\test.txt >> >> $ ls -l .\\test.txt >> -rw-r--r-- 1 eholmber Domain Users 0 2010-02-26 11:16 .\test.txt >> >> >> Any help is greatly appreciated! > >We very much prefer to see cygcheck output unedited and *attached*, >not appended. > Will do next time. Thanks, Eric
