file permission

2010-02-26 Thread dsula1
Hi, I have many files showing a file permission of 000. This happens with files I drag and drop from somewhere into the cygwin folder. There's only one user on this computer and I don't understand why I get a permission of 000. I then try to chmod the files, but I get a "permission denied". But e

Re: HOME environment variable set in Windows

2010-01-11 Thread dsula1
I don't have sysedit. Where is that supposed to be? I'm running vista x64 and searched the complete HD. Does it need to be installed seperatly. WeyHan wrote: > > > dsula1 wrote: >> >> Howevever I wasn't able to find any reference to a HOME variable in >

Re: file owner and group lost when mounting samba share

2010-01-08 Thread dsula1
Thank you. Sorry for top posting, force of habit. *smile* Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 01/08/2010 03:31 PM, dsula1 wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I mounted a network samba share in cygwin >> mount x:/prj /prj >> and it works with the exceptions that the

Re: file owner and group lost when mounting samba share

2010-01-08 Thread dsula1
I just reverted back to cygwin 1.5 and now the samba share works again as expected. Wow. I'm glad. So for me 1.7 is out. Never updata a working setup. I should have listened. dsula1 wrote: > > Hi, > > I mounted a network samba share in cygwin > mount x:/prj /prj >

file owner and group lost when mounting samba share

2010-01-08 Thread dsula1
Hi, I mounted a network samba share in cygwin mount x:/prj /prj and it works with the exceptions that the file nd group owner of the files are only displayed as ???. Any ideas what could be going on ? Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/file-owner-and-group

Re: HOME environment variable set in Windows

2010-01-08 Thread dsula1
No, they are not there, that's the reason for my posting. I read that HOMEPATH and HOMEDRV are special and set by windows in some obscure way. They can't be changed thru My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables Howevever I wasn't able to find any reference to a HOME variable i

HOME environment variable set in Windows

2010-01-08 Thread dsula1
Hi, I discovered that the HOME variable is set in windows. I therefore get the cygwin HOME path set to this window path instead of the path set in passwd as I would like it. I tried to delete the windows HOME path, but I can't find it. Where is it set or what does set it? I have HOME, HOMEPATH and