Hello Corinna > > > Is your home directory on an SMB share? If so, you may > > > need to add "smbntsec" to your CYGWIN environment variable. > > Yes it is - so to speak. It's on a Windows Server 2003 > > Share, not on Samba. > Does your CYGWIN env. variable contain "nontsec"?
No, it does not: $ echo $CYGWIN binmode ntsec tty Is this the solution, "nontsec" instead of "ntsec"? My fault, then; never took the time or thought it to be important enough to read about the CYGWIN variable. I'll do this right now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Regards Fermin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/