Re: com1 access denied - win xp

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Wood
Thanks for your speedy replies (and I apologize for not getting back to you until now). I have determined simply from trying various combinations of things, that COM1 is a name that is created within cygwin when a device is connected to the serial port and powered-on. The name /dev/com1 always

com1 access denied - win xp

2004-05-20 Thread Michael Wood
Hi-ya, I get an Access is denied error message when attempting to create a serial port connection through Cygwin, running on Win XP. In cygwin, when I execute: ls -l COM1 I get the following: -rw-r--r--1 mwoodmkgroup-0 Jan 1 1970 COM1 However, when I execute:

Re: com1 access denied - win xp

2004-05-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Michael Wood wrote: [snip] I have successfully created and used a connection on the serial port on the same machine through a VMWare session running a Linux Red Hat image. I used a very similar procedure above, in that I simply changed the permissions on /dev/ttyS0 to

RE: com1 access denied - win xp

2004-05-20 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Michael Wood Sent: 20 May 2004 17:23 Hi-ya, I get an Access is denied error message when attempting to create a serial port connection through Cygwin, running on Win XP. In cygwin, when I execute: ls -l COM1 I get

Re: com1 access denied - win xp

2004-05-20 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Michael Wood wrote: I get an Access is denied error message when attempting to create a serial port connection through Cygwin, running on Win XP. In cygwin, when I execute: ls -l COM1 I get the following: -rw-r--r--1 mwoodmkgroup-0 Jan 1