Re: com1 access denied - win xp

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Wood
Thanks for your speedy replies (and I apologize for not getting back to you until now). I have determined simply from trying various combinations of things, that "COM1" is a name that is created within cygwin when a device is connected to the serial port and powered-on. The name "/dev/com1" alw

Re: com1 access denied - win xp

2004-05-20 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Michael Wood wrote: > I get an "Access is denied" error message when attempting to create a > serial port connection through Cygwin, running on Win XP. > > In cygwin, when I execute: > ls -l COM1 > > I get the following: > -rw-r--r--1 mwoodmkgroup-0

RE: com1 access denied - win xp

2004-05-20 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Michael Wood > Sent: 20 May 2004 17:23 > Hi-ya, > > I get an "Access is denied" error message when attempting to create a > serial port connection through Cygwin, running on Win XP. > > In cygwin, when I execute: > ls -l COM1

Re: com1 access denied - win xp

2004-05-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Michael Wood wrote: > [snip] > I have successfully created and used a connection on the serial port on > the same machine through a VMWare session running a Linux Red Hat image. > I used a very similar procedure above, in that I simply changed the > permissions on "/dev/ttyS0"

com1 access denied - win xp

2004-05-20 Thread Michael Wood
Hi-ya, I get an "Access is denied" error message when attempting to create a serial port connection through Cygwin, running on Win XP. In cygwin, when I execute: ls -l COM1 I get the following: -rw-r--r--1 mwoodmkgroup-0 Jan 1 1970 COM1 However, when I execute: