Permission problem installing to Mapped Network Drive

Permission problem installing to Mapped Network Drive

[Alan]

I originally thought this problem was due to installing as non-admin, but
further investigation has led me to conclude the problem is due to
installing to a Mapped Network Drive (or even a drive other than C:).

I am trying to install cygwin on a non-networked computer as a non-admin
user. But for now I am installing it on a computer running XP, with a
network connection and as an admin user. To mimic the remote case, I set
up a Mapped Network Drive, for which I have full access privileges. I need
the texlive-collection-latex package, so have installed that.

The installation fails with 

Package: fontconfig
	fontconfig.sh exit code 13
Package: texlive-collection-basic
	texlive-collection-basic.sh exit code 11

and running latex at a terminal window gives

-bash: /usr/bin/latex: cannot execute binary file

$ chmod +x /usr/bin/latex
$ ls -l /usr/bin/latex
-rw-r--r-- 1 curtis None 21 Jan 25 20:04 /usr/bin/latex

I can't change the permissions. How do I fix this?


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Re: Permission problem installing to Mapped Network Drive

[Ken Brown]

On 1/25/2013 8:19 PM, Alan wrote:
> I originally thought this problem was due to installing as non-admin, but
> further investigation has led me to conclude the problem is due to
> installing to a Mapped Network Drive (or even a drive other than C:).
>
> I am trying to install cygwin on a non-networked computer as a non-admin
> user. But for now I am installing it on a computer running XP, with a
> network connection and as an admin user. To mimic the remote case, I set
> up a Mapped Network Drive, for which I have full access privileges. I need
> the texlive-collection-latex package, so have installed that.
>
> The installation fails with
>
> Package: fontconfig
> 	fontconfig.sh exit code 13
> Package: texlive-collection-basic
> 	texlive-collection-basic.sh exit code 11
>
> and running latex at a terminal window gives
>
> -bash: /usr/bin/latex: cannot execute binary file
>
> $ chmod +x /usr/bin/latex
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/latex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 curtis None 21 Jan 25 20:04 /usr/bin/latex
>
> I can't change the permissions. How do I fix this?

/usr/bin/latex is actually a symlink to /usr/bin/pdftex.exe, but for 
some reason Cygwin isn't recognizing this.  You're probably going to 
have to send more information about your network drive in order for 
someone (not me) to help you figure out what the problem is.

Ken

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Re: Permission problem installing to Mapped Network Drive

[Achim Gratz]

Alan writes:
> $ chmod +x /usr/bin/latex
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/latex
> -rw-r--r-- 1 curtis None 21 Jan 25 20:04 /usr/bin/latex
>
> I can't change the permissions. How do I fix this?

Does mounting that drive someplace else with the "noacl" option help?
If so, then your network admins have configured the share in a way that
prevents you from modifying ACL, a practise that seems to spread lately.
That makes such shares mostly useless if you must use software that
actually needs correct file modes (like RCS, which will lose data if it
can't write-protect its files).  If you can't install someplace else
where you can modify the ACL for directories you create, try to make a
vhd container, mount it from Windows, then install into the virtual
drive that this creates.


Regards,
Achim.
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