Am Donnerstag, November 02, 2017 16:14 CET, Andrey Repin <[email protected]> schrieb:
> > When I manually enter the path (using a mapped drive), I get a dialog: > > "Directory S:\cygwin\Downloads does not exist, would you like me to create > > it?" which is wrong since the folder exists. > > > > What is the problem here? I searched the documentation and it mentions a > > couple of problems with network shares and Windows authentication but that > > when Cygwin is already running. > > Store setup.exe on the same network share and use UNC path to access it. > Then "other people" could use both a fresh package cache and a fresh setup.exe > together. Thanks, UNC path works. Regards. -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
