I'll second everything Printis said and in addition please check, if you have the correct user-id in your passwd and group. On my W2K cygwin inserted (only) my local admin account to passwd, while I log in with my domain admin account. So id, ls -l etc. all look fine (admin admin), but nothing works, cause it is the false admin account (the false SID). OK, you mention, that you only have local users and no domain users, but make sure, that cygwin thinks the same ;-)
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