Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 22:46:03 -0400 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: James.Below@grc.nasa.gov Subject: Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session Message-ID: <20031004024603.GA34804783@hpn5170x> Mail-Followup-To: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin@cygwin.com, James.Below@grc.nasa.gov References: <5.1.1.5.2.20031003155210.01a43a98@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.5.2.20031003155210.01a43a98@popserve.grc.nasa.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:48:43PM -0400, James D Below wrote: > HI everyone, > > I'm not sure how I did it but I messed up my user permissions or local > policy settings. Now whenever I run any cygwin app (bash.exe, wc.exe, > rxvt.exe) from a w2k terminal session and logged in as a user, I see the > following error: > > **** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating. > > I'm running Windows 2000 SP4 and CYGWIN = binmode tty ntsec > > More specific details.... > > If I am logged into the console I can run any cygwin apps. When I log in > remotely to the server through ssh, everything is fine. The only time a > problem occurs is when I login through a terminal server client using an > account other than "Administrator". The administrator account doesn't > experience problem. A user account belonging in the Administrators group > does. You don't say what version of Cygwin you are using. If it's a recent one, could you try a snapshot? The problem may be fixed since 9/26. Pierre -- 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/