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Re: 1.7 installation failed (on network drive?)
On Nov 24 18:21, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> I tried this installation to a network drive on one machine again
> with last week's new setup.exe, which didn't solve the problem as
> Corinna had assumed, but with more detailed test results:
> The machine runs Windows XP Professional, drvies H: and T: are
> normal Windows mounts or NFTS network drives.
> I started setup-1.7.exe from a command line after explicitly
> clearing PATH completely.
>
> 1. attempt, root dir T:\cygwin17, package dir H:\cygwin17:
> >---------------------------
> >Fehler
> >---------------------------
> >Could not change dir to H:\cygwin17: Das System kann die
> >angegebene Datei nicht finden.
> >
> > [00000002]
> >---------------------------
> >Abbrechen Wiederholen Ignorieren ---------------------------
>
> which - by the way - suggests the recent fix about mkdir was not
> complete - at least the package directory still had to be created
> manually.
I can't reproduce this. I tried with shares on Samba, with shares on a
remote NTFS on a machine in the same AD domain, and with shares on a
remote machine which is not member of the domain. In all three cases I
could install Cygwin from scratch just fine, using the latest
setup-1.7.exe.
Are you sure the share permissions are sufficient? In contrast to the
1.5 setup, the 1.7 setup tries to create files and directories with
explicit ACLs. I assumed that this could make problems, but in my case
it just doesn't make any. When I created the shares, I just made sure
that the share permissions were sufficient.
Corinna
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