From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15933 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2018 19:12:23 -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 15916 invoked by uid 89); 26 Nov 2018 19:12:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,GIT_PATCH_2 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=drives, administrator, Administrator, Share X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:12:21 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id wAQJCH0e040251 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:12:19 -0800 Message-ID: <5BFC458F.3020807@tlinx.org> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:12:00 -0000 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup-x86_64 Can't Download to Mapped Drive References: <41253716.20181126173800@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <41253716.20181126173800@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-11/txt/msg00198.txt.bz2 On 11/26/2018 6:38 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Sridhar Ayengar! >> I am trying to use a network >> shared drive mapped to I: for the download directory, I:\cygwindownload. >> setup-x86_64 shows a dialog box with "Directory I:\cygwindownload does not >> exist, would you like me to create it?". .. ---- > Get off the habit of using mapped drives. Use UNC paths directly. ---- Why? UNC drives are the linux equivalent of a local alias of a local "mount --bind //net/dir /i/". Would you tell linux users to get off the habit of using mount with bind? I have used Cygwin since Windows_XP with my Cygwin package cache on a mapped drive (and have it installed at C:\ with a drive prefix of '/', so '/c' == '/': > cd 'S:/Software/Cygwin' /s/Software/Cygwin> > more setup.log.full 2018/11/02 15:32:27 Starting cygwin install, version 2.891 2018/11/02 15:32:27 User has backup/restore rights 2018/11/02 15:32:27 Current Directory: S:\Software\Cygwin 2018/11/02 15:32:27 Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access. 2018/11/02 15:32:30 Ending cygwin install > net use S: Local name S: Remote name \\Ishtar\Share Resource type Disk I have never had a problem with it being remote. FWIW, my cygwin signon is in the Administrators group as well as my local domain (hosted on linux)'s "Domain Admins" group. Second point (not sure if it is important or not), my local sys account 'Administrator' has the same mappings as my main login. -- 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