Greetings, Aaron Digulla! > I would like to share the local package cache with other people.
> When browse folders in the respective page in setup.exe, no network shares > are visible. > When I manually enter the path (using a mapped drive), I get a dialog: > "Directory S:\cygwin\Downloads does not exist, would you like me to create > it?" which is wrong since the folder exists. No, it isn't wrong, since you are using mapped drive, which may not exist in a different user session. There's an easy solution, though: stop using mapped drives. You should have been, for 17 years now. > When I click "yes", I get an error "Couldn't create directory. Is drive full > or read-only?" > I can create a folder (and delete it) from Explorer, so it's not a Windows > permission problem. > What is the problem here? I searched the documentation and it mentions a > couple of problems with network shares and Windows authentication but that > when Cygwin is already running. Store setup.exe on the same network share and use UNC path to access it. Then "other people" could use both a fresh package cache and a fresh setup.exe together. You can even restrict write access to the share, if desired, then "other people" could use it to install from downloaded archives, and selected administrators with write access could refresh package archive. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, November 2, 2017 18:10:02 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
