Larry wrote: >> OK, you've explained the problem but didn't include >> any concrete information about your environment and >> configuration, so it's not really worthwhile for someone >> to make suggestions of things to look for.
Actually it's even worse than that. I asked a question that could have been answered by careful review of the error messages I received and some more studying of the Cygwin documentation. Just in case anyone else is having this problem, the answer in a nutshell is that I installed Cygwin when not logged in to my NT domain. The remedy was to log in to the domain and relaunch Cygwin. Once I did that, Cygwin then created a home directory for me on my "Z" drive, which is actually a hard map to a network drive (have to do it this way for compatability with some old software). Since I want to be able to use Cygwin while disconnected, I manually edited /etc/passwd to change the home directory to a new directory under /home (which I also created). Then I copied all the individualized files (e.g., .bashrc) from the Z: drive directory to the new home directory. Testing under both logged in and not logged in conditions worked fine after these changes. Regards, Mark -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/