From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Setup's local package directory on network share
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <651aeb23-8b04-ede3-515c-3707892f312b@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <762253272.20171102181420@yandex.ru>
Am 02.11.2017 um 16:14 schrieb Andrey Repin:
> Greetings, Aaron Digulla!
>
>> I would like to share the local package cache with other people.
>> When browse folders in the respective page in setup.exe, no network shares are visible.
>> 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 create
>> it?" which is wrong since the folder exists.
> No, it isn't wrong, since you are using mapped drive, which may not exist in a
> different user session.
You could also avoid switching the user with setup --no-admin.
Same problem if the installation target (the cygwin root) is on a
network drive.
Thomas
> There's an easy solution, though: stop using mapped drives. You should have
> been, for 17 years now.
>
>> When I click "yes", I get an error "Couldn't create directory. Is drive full or read-only?"
>> I can create a folder (and delete it) from Explorer, so it's not a Windows permission problem.
>> What is the problem here? I searched the documentation and it mentions a
>> couple of problems with network shares and Windows authentication but that 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 setup.exe
> together.
> You can even restrict write access to the share, if desired, then "other
> people" could use it to install from downloaded archives, and selected
> administrators with write access could refresh package archive.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-05 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-02 13:52 Aaron Digulla
2017-11-02 14:01 ` Achim Gratz
2017-11-02 15:20 ` Andrey Repin
2017-11-05 22:22 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2017-11-06 9:28 ` Aaron Digulla
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