Vista: mount/umount -s permission denied

[Dick Repasky]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> Dick Repasky wrote:
>>
>>  On Windows Vista Enterprise, I consistently receive "permission denied"
>>  errors when using cygwin mount/umount commands on system mounts
>>  (mount/umount -s ...).  I cannot mount novel system mount points (e.g.,
>>  mount -s -b C:\\bonga /usr/local) or unmount existing system mount points
>>  (e.g., umount -s /usr/lib). The same is true from the cygwin bash prompt,
>>  from within a cygwin bash script, from the windows command prompt
>>  (C:\cygwin\bin\mount -s ...) or from within a windows .bat file.
>>
>>  The system is a single-user system, and my identity is that under which
>>  setup.exe was run to install cygwin.
>>
>>  I have not had this issue with cygwin under XP.
>>
>>  User mounts (mount/umount -u) work just fine for me on Vista.
>>
>>  Are system mounts supposed to be unmutable?  If so, oh.  If not, is there
>>  a work-around, or what have I done wrongly?
>
>
> Try turning off UAC.  Otherwise, give your user the ability to add/remove/
> update all registry entries.
>
   Yes, UAC is the issue, thanks.

Dick


Dick Repasky
Center for Computational Cytomics
UITS Cubicle 101.08
Indiana University
USA

rrepasky@indiana.edu

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