I've noticed a subtle detail to the original problem -- as I said in my first post, I can't list the contents drive U which is mapped to a network share (and therefore I can't use tab completion to traverse folders, or synchronise folders with unison etc...). However I've noticed that tab completion *does* work if I am inside a subdirectory with only a few small files.
I installed Cygwin 1.7 and I get exactly the same symptoms (i.e. can't list contents of anything but almost empty directories). I've listed the results at the bottom of this e-mail. In searching the web for this problem, I came across this post regarding problems with CIFS symlinks on a network share: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-02/msg00086.html I don't know if that problem has been fixed on 1.7 or whether it could be related to my problem. Here are the results comparing Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7: On Cygwin 1.5: (I don't know if the time stamp reported by ls are a useful clue... 1970) ====================================================================== $ uname -r 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) $ mount C:\Programs\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode) C:\Programs\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode) C:\Programs\cygwin on / type user (binmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount) d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount) i: on /cygdrive/i type user (binmode,noumount) o: on /cygdrive/o type user (binmode,noumount) p: on /cygdrive/p type user (binmode,noumount) u: on /cygdrive/u type user (binmode,noumount) $ ls /cygdrive/u/ ls: reading directory /cygdrive/u/: No such host or network path total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 NGGMV1R Domain Users 0 Jun 30 14:31 . dr-xr-xr-x 1 0 0 0 Jan 1 1970 .. ====================================================================== On Cygwin 1.7: ====================================================================== $ uname -r 1.7.0(0.210/5/3) $ mount C:/Temp/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode) C:/Temp/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode) C:/Temp/cygwin on / type user (binmode) C: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount) D: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount) I: on /cygdrive/i type user (binmode,noumount) O: on /cygdrive/o type user (binmode,noumount) P: on /cygdrive/p type user (binmode,noumount) U: on /cygdrive/u type user (binmode,noumount) $ ls /cygdrive/u/ ls: reading directory /cygdrive/u/: No such file or directory ====================================================================== -- 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
