On Nov 25 18:30, Dave Korn wrote: > Thomas Wolff wrote: > > ext Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >> Are you sure the share permissions are sufficient? In contrast to the > >> 1.5 setup, the 1.7 setup tries to create files and directories with > >> explicit ACLs. > > On the H: drive, I have "full access" according to the Windows > > properties dialog. > > On the T: drive, I don't, but I have read and write permissions of > > course. However, missing rights to modify ACLs might indeed by the issue > > here. > > 100%.
> > > In usual *nix terms, however, I have sufficient rights to do anything I > > need, so I think setup.exe might want to be more fault-tolerant here > > (and issue more precise error hints), esp. if setting ACLs fails. > > Need better error handling, it should fall back to whatever it does on FAT > systems. The files and directories are created with default ACLs. The POSIX-like permissions are set afterwards. It does not matter to setup if setting the POSIX-like permissions fails. However, if anything didn't work in there, you should see this in the setup log. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat