Thank you both for trying to help me out. I'm primarily a web developer and lack much of the system admin knowledge that would definitely help in this situation.
> > Yes, HOME is set in the Windows environment and I am not able to change it. > > How so?... > > > With the "SET" command in a Windows command prompt I can see: > > > HOME=SERVER/USERS5:USERS\SHAUN > > That's suspicious. So many symbols not allowed to be there. Not only does it look strange, but I can't tell where it's being set. Under System > Advanced > Environment Variables, there is no HOME variable set. When I put one in, it's ignored. If I type "set home" from the command prompt I get: HOME=SERVER/USERS5:USERS\SHAUN HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Users\shaun I guess that would suggest the admins are using it to build up the full path dynamically for some reason. I'll need to talk to them about making any modifications. > On a second look into your OP, I'm also a bit puzzled about the > settings you made in /etc/nsswitch.conf. >From the documentation, it looked like "db_home: /home/%U" should solve my problems. When that didn't have any affect, I was just grasping at straws. I didn't try those all at once, I just wanted to show the options I had tried. Cygwin works perfectly in my home environment and on a virtual machine I have at work using a standard Windows installation. My work environment has caused problems with other programs in the past, but it seemed like this HOME variable situation could be bypassed by the "/etc/nsswitch.conf" file. I'll talk with the admins about Cygwin and see if they want to help me get this issue worked out. Thanks again for your efforts. -- 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
