From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7453 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2017 09:28:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 7440 invoked by uid 89); 6 Nov 2017 09:28:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=D*yandex.ru, dark, unc, universe X-HELO: mail.hepe.com Received: from sbb-mail.hepe.com (HELO mail.hepe.com) (78.47.220.235) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:28:11 +0000 Received: from sbb-sogo.hepe.com ([172.22.225.144]) by mail.hepe.com with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eBdhP-0007oB-Pf for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:28:07 +0100 Received: from sogo by sbb-sogo.hepe.com with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eBdhP-0007o6-Fc for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:28:07 +0000 content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" in-reply-to: <762253272.20171102181420@yandex.ru> from: "Aaron Digulla" X-Forward: 46.140.173.26 Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:28:00 -0000 to: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 message-id: <578f-5a002b00-41-38cb1240@198679956> subject: =?utf-8?q?Re=3A?= Setup's local package directory on network share User-Agent: SOGoMail 3.2.3 content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 Am Donnerstag, November 02, 2017 16:14 CET, Andrey Repin schrieb: > > When I manually enter the path (using a mapped drive), I get a dialog: > > "Directory S:\cygwin\Downloads does not exist, would you like me to cre= ate > > it?" which is wrong since the folder exists. > > > > What is the problem here? I searched the documentation and it mentions a > > couple of problems with network shares and Windows authentication but t= hat when Cygwin is already running. > > Store setup.exe on the same network share and use UNC path to access it. > Then "other people" could use both a fresh package cache and a fresh setu= p.exe > together. Thanks, UNC path works. Regards. -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple