This permissions problem has existed for awhile, and I'd like to find a solution.
CMD.EXE is able to create files inside directories on a standard Windows share, but from a Bash shell on Cygwin, a permission denied message occurs, and this is in most if not all directories: -bash: .cpan/build/foo2: Permission denied Below are equivalent commands run first from a CMD.EXE window, which succeeds, and below this from a Cygwin window, where I didn't used to have problems on this shared drive but for the past few months it's been a problem: CACLS used to show directory permissions. (kchristian@some-machine) /cygdrive/z>uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 some-machine 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin ==========CMD.EXE========== =========================== Z:\.cpan\build>cacls z:\.cpan z:\.cpan NGT\kchristian:(OI)(CI)C BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)F NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F Z:\.cpan\build>cacls z:\.cpan\build z:\.cpan\build NGT\kchristian:(OI)(CI)C BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)F NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F Z:\.cpan\build>echo foo > foo Z:\.cpan\build>cacls foo Z:\.cpan\build\foo NGT\kchristian:C BUILTIN\Administrators:F NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F Z:\.cpan\build>dir foo Volume in drive Z has no label. Volume Serial Number is 9E50-161B Directory of Z:\.cpan\build 05/12/2011 09:33 AM 6 foo 1 File(s) 6 bytes 0 Dir(s) 1,174,419,517,440 bytes free ==========BASH/CYGWIN========== =============================== (kchristian@some-machine) /cygdrive/z>ls -dl .cpan drwx------+ 1 Administrators Domain Users 0 Mar 22 15:10 .cpan (kchristian@some-machine) /cygdrive/z>ls -dl .cpan/build/ drwx------+ 1 Administrators Domain Users 0 May 12 09:33 .cpan/build/ (kchristian@some-machine) /cygdrive/z>ls -dl .cpan/build/foo -rwx------+ 1 kchristian Domain Users 6 May 12 09:33 .cpan/build/foo (kchristian@some-machine) /cygdrive/z>echo foo2 > .cpan/build/foo2 -bash: .cpan/build/foo2: Permission denied ======Keith -- 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