I had the same problem, and the suggested solution below worked. Failing a permanent fix, it would be great if a future version of cygwin allowed me to specify (via a config file) that I need to mount (some or all) of the /cygdrive directories with noacl option (or even better - pointers on how to achieve that with the current version). In the meantime I have set up /etc/fstab as specified below and modified our scripts to write to the manually mounted network share.
We have deliberately weird permissions on some directories, so I am unlikely to be able to convince either auditors or system administrators to modify the setup $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.2 awmspvw00204 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin > Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:58:34 +0200 > From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com> > To: cygwin at cygwin dot com > Subject: Re: Create file fails on network drives in cygwin-1.7.9-1 > Message-ID: <20110616145834.ga21...@calimero.vinschen.de> > References: <banlktim75avygkmyhzzdembqjt5dfu1...@mail.gmail.com> > <20110616124954.gy12...@calimero.vinschen.de> > <BANLkTin1t2DZedqY7TBWDbPAW_ra=oi...@mail.gmail.com> > In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin1t2DZedqY7TBWDbPAW_ra=oiuzg at mail dot gmail > dot com> >Thanks. AFAICS the permissions on that network drive don't allow a >user to set the ACL of a file he or she's just creating. In contrast >to previous versions, Cygwin 1.7.9 requests the permission for that >right at file creation time. Unfortunately that fails due to the weird >permission settings on that drive. > >Try to mount your drive with the noacl option to some arbitrary mount >point, for instance: > > mount -f -o noacl,binary X: /my_x_drive > >and then use the path below that mount point to access the drive. > >If that works, you can add the path to your personal fstab file (see >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table): > > X: /my_x_drive none noacl,binary,posix=0 0 0 > >Please report back if it helped. If so, I'll add some workaround for >this problem to the next Cygwin version. >Corinna ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au -- 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
