I have this same problem. Did i miss a solution posting? (I don't remember, but i thought this used to work fine....) -- bye
From: Paul G Cantalupo <lupey+ at pitt dot edu> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:13:02 -0500 (EST) >When I run ping as the administrator on my Win2K box, it works fine but as >a regular user, I get the following. > >ping: socket: operation not permitted > >I added the u+s permission to the ping executable and now I get (from a >regular user account): > >PING supernova (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes >sendto: Operation not permitted >ping: wrote supernova 64 chars, ret=-1 >ping: recvfrom: Invalid argument >ping: recvfrom: Invalid argument >... (ad infinitum) --- --- --- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- 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/