On Wed, 14 May 2025 at 10:35, Andrey Repin via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > Greetings, Aurélien Couderc! > > > We always install Cygwin on a network drive, the CI runs as a separate > > user and the IT department does not install Cygwin on the machines > > itself. The test machines also do not have local users, all users come > > from N:, and have their home dirs on N: (Windows network share). > > The problem with installing Cygwin on a network share is that network share > could have enforced permissions which are not compatible with Cygwin's > requirements, and not all tools are ready to work with UNC paths. > This seems to be not your issue, as I can see, but you should keep it in mind > nonetheless. > Adding to that, Cygwin is installed for specific local environment and cannot > me easily transferred to a different one due to potential address mapping > issues. > So, installing it on a network share thinking it can be "accessed anywhere > anytime" is simply not going to work.
But it did work in earlier releases. Just Cygwin 3.6 chokes on SMB filesystems. Question: How can someone install a specific Cygwin 64bit release? Dan -- Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
