On Jul 5 10:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 5 12:21, Bill Metzenthen wrote: > > What should I ask the system administrator to change so that cygwin > > will once again work on this drive? Perhaps there is some new setting > > (or an old one which has somehow changed) for cygwin that I have > > failed to notice? > > If you want to discuss this with your admin, the problem is this: When > Cygwin 1.7.9 tries to create a file on a filesystem which supports ACLs, > it requests WRITE_DAC permissions in the open call. WRITE_DAC is the > access right you need to create the permission bits in the file's ACL, > what you see in Explorer under the Security tab. > > Now, in some environments, the settings of the shares are so, that this > right is apparently not granted, even for the creator of the file. > But, as far as earlier reports go, there seem to be no indication of > this in the ACL. As I mentioned above, I experimented with this > myself, but I have never managed to reproduce this setting on the server. > So I neither know how this setting looks like, nor if there's a way > to recognize such a share.
Btw, if you're going to discuss this with your admin, and if you figure out what server setting is the culprit, I would be glad if you could share the information with us. It might be a great help in developing Cygwin further. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
