Hello,
a privilege problem occures with permanent virtual drives defined as DOS devices. $> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 meow2 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin when have defined dos devices to access a particular path as a permanent virtual drive in each session like the following example: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices] "K:"="\\??\\C:\\\\oracle\\doc\\10.2\\doc" no access is possible with a normal user or an admin user with a restricted token - only users with an elevated admin token can access it if explicitly mounted a "No such file or directory" is issued when trying to access the mount point via ls or df while not using an elevated admin token as normal user $_%> df /k df: `/k': No such file or directory df: no file systems processed as elevated admin $_#> df /k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on K: 110687816 81352392 29335424 74% /k if not explicitly mounted no cygdrive entry occures for such users this privilege problem didn't occure with version before 1.7 $> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 meow2 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin regards kf -- 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
