From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay6-d.mail.gandi.net (relay6-d.mail.gandi.net [IPv6:2001:4b98:dc4:8::226]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29A143858D20 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:05:24 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 29A143858D20 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=oskog97.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=oskog97.com Received: (Authenticated sender: novia@oskog97.com) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77E86C0004 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:05:22 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=oskog97.com; s=gm1; t=1645092322; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=hdwhWPlP6sDKixVo8y/SZoglMBjwnIqzBMVXqUM7aPA=; b=TrMXpl76amr/4Srms8Mp204LKvXJdxxQ6IdREuyU9rjbZEEpHjOVeFjAfgyC5RJ5mNkrz1 GcYv50pi3/6VDEuPVGjwLmPotwT8BW5HLvFf6avyZdcKOIEbAT+nBMFsVCCWTpoUaFaB/y X40P68ti/Th4k08+DIZf7A/UY2iJDSyZLRz5HqhRDckvCbkFihOXK79hwBEcPmn7R6RbYC a7swVAH5xa7U1qJb/lqwZFhq6P9k3tiq7HFNyHpG+1XKj0AYir/6UVWqUu0rMVPUFfE4MT YRRM9cpT2kb11V/9+HNB2rpZcpyld7Iu1vIM7kfZsFO5zD192M94pnRQUpbXIw== Message-ID: <6de895b2-4a8b-6af0-0e16-55183dcdc7d4@oskog97.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:05:20 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.0 Subject: Re: too many level of symbolic links Content-Language: en-US To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <002301d823da$e147ee60$a3d7cb20$@uni-bremen.de> From: Oskar Skog In-Reply-To: <002301d823da$e147ee60$a3d7cb20$@uni-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:05:26 -0000 On 2022-02-17 10:46, Andreas Heckel wrote: > I have a network drive mapped like > //hostname/share --> p: > > When trying to access the network drive via cygwin I get: > > $ ls /cygdrive/p > ls: cannot open directory '/cygdrive/p': Too many levels of symbolic links > > Accessing the network share directly via //hostname/share works as normal. > > I have been using cygwin a long time but this is the first time this happens. My machine and our servers got recently updated, so I can't really pinpoint the reason for this behaviour now. > > Any hints / advice how to resolve this? > > Cheers, Andreas > > Are you running the newest version of Cygwin (3.3.4)?, there have been a similar issue to yours in the previous version that should have been fixed.