From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mumit Khan To: Paul Smith Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: SSH Problem Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:03:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <1e5e1186a1.186a11e5e1@zonnet.nl> X-SW-Source: 2000-01/msg00265.html On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Paul Smith wrote: > I've just installed one of the SSH ports for CYGWIN and it tries to > make a directory call //.ssh which it is unable to do. > > If you type "mkdir //.ssh", this also fails. I'm guessing this is a > problem with the directory conversion algorithm used in CYGWIN. > > Note: I'm using B20.1 Define HOME. SSH will try to open $HOME/.ssh, and if you don't have HOME defined, it's somehow becoming //.ssh, which is of course a network path in windows, and it'll fail unless you have a share named //.ssh (and even then it'll fail since you can't just create a share like that). Regards, Mumit -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com