What's your ~ftp structure look like? Here's what I have (and it works for me): $ cd ~ftp $ ls -ld bin etc; ls -l bin etc dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 Mar 4 11:07 bin/ dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 Mar 23 2002 etc/ bin: total 956 -r-xr-xr-x 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 910152 Mar 4 11:07 cygwin1.dll* -r-xr-xr-x 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 68608 Nov 27 10:43 ls.exe* etc: total 4 -r--r--r-- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 440 Mar 21 2002 group -r--r--r-- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 83 Mar 21 2002 motd -r--r--r-- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 1165 Mar 23 2002 passwd -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/