cygwin installation on a synology NAS drive

[Dr. Volker Zell]

On 02.03.2015 17:56, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, U-leila\vzell!
>
>> I created a shared folder on a Synology NAS and mapped it to a Windows 7
>> host system. Both Windows 7 and Synology NAS have the same named user
>> account (part of admin groups). The named user has full access to the
>> shared folder on the NAS side.
>
>> I then tried installing latest cygwin versions (x86/x64) on the mapped
>> drive (at the root filesystem) but got permissions errors from setup.exe
>
>> Setup was actually able to create the cygwin directory structure but
>> could not write to the log file.
>
>> Creating directories/files and writing to files is no problem with
>> windows tools on the mapped drive.
>
>> Anybody else tried this setup or knows what's going on here ? Or is a
>> cygwin installation on a NAS not supported ?
>
> Have you authorized admin session on NAS before starting setup?

How do you do this ?

> Setup by default request elevation and that change all authorization context
> of the application. Even mapped drive letters are different for elevated
> process.
> Can you try to start elevated cmd.exe, make sure you have correct maps/write
> access to  destination directory in there and start setup.exe from it?

Same result


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