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Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>, Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:33:05 -0400
- Subject: Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar
- References: <20040611210245.94854.qmail@web61008.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 05:02 PM 6/11/2004, you wrote:
>After upgrading to 1.5.10, I'm seem to be having a problem creating files on
>network drives using tar. For quite a while now (a couple of years, at least),
>I've been using tar to back up several directories to a network share, and had
>no problems up through version 1.5.9. However, with 1.5.10-3, I get the message
>
>tar: /cygdrive/m/test.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
>tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
>when I issue the command
>
>tar -cf /cygdrive/m/test.tar test
>
>where test is a directory with a few files in it.
>
>Now, it doesn't appear to be a permission problem as I can cd to /cygdrive/m
>and create files with touch or vim, delete files, copy files, etc. The network
>drives are hosted by Windows servers running either NT or 2K.
>
>I tried removing smbntsec from the CYGWIN env var, but that made no difference.
>I also tried the latest snapshot with the same results. Reverting to 1.5.9,
>however, fixes the problem.
>
>I did try googling the mailing list archives, but most of what I found was
>related to accessing network shares after sshing to a remote node.
>
>It appears to me that this might be related to
>
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00014.html
>
>but I wasn't sure so I started a new thread.
>
>Cygcheck output attached.
>
Maybe it's just me but there doesn't seem to by any cygcheck output.
Did you omit it inadvertently?
FWIW, a quick test with my nearest remote share did not reproduce the
problem with cygwin 1.5.10.
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