Joe Bologna wrote:
I've been using Cygwin for a long time. I haven't had reason to
reinstall it until recently when I got a new computer. I installed the
latest version and discovered the -s option to mount was removed. All I
wanted to do is change the cygdrive prefix from /cygdrive to /. I
discovered that I needed to edit /etc/fstab, I uncommented the entry below:
none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
This worked fine on local disks, but made it impossible to create files,
directories or modify them on mounted NTFS shares. I was stuck for hours
looking for a solution. I finally RTM on mount and /etc/fstab and
discovered the "noacl" option. I changed the entry to:
none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user,noacl 0 0
This solved the problem. Hopefully this will help other people who run
into the same issue. It was pretty difficult to find a fix for.
A suggestion for a later release, add the "noacl" option to the
commented out /etc/fstab entry.
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I have:
none / cygdrive posix=0,nouser 0 0
which works for me with my NTFS shares
But my NTFS share support acls...
If yours don't, then I could see why you'd need to change it...
Might consider using newer version of Samba (3.X? )
on top of XFS as a file system....(on a linux box)...
You get full ACL and user support -- as well as the ability
to have your Samba server (occasionally) function as a domain
server (mines messed up since up installed 3.6.0, but that's
due to some incompatibilities I didn't know about from earlier
so have to figure out to fix).
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