Using Cygwin installation on network share in CI fails

Fri May 23 09:16:53 GMT 2025

On 2025年5月14日 at 10:35, Andrey Repin via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> Greetings, Aurélien Couderc!
>> > We always install Cygwin on a network drive, the CI runs as a separate
> > user and the IT department does not install Cygwin on the machines
> > itself. The test machines also do not have local users, all users come
> > from N:, and have their home dirs on N: (Windows network share).
>> The problem with installing Cygwin on a network share is that network share
> could have enforced permissions which are not compatible with Cygwin's
> requirements, and not all tools are ready to work with UNC paths.
> This seems to be not your issue, as I can see, but you should keep it in mind
> nonetheless.
> Adding to that, Cygwin is installed for specific local environment and cannot
> me easily transferred to a different one due to potential address mapping issues.
> So, installing it on a network share thinking it can be "accessed anywhere
> anytime" is simply not going to work.

But it did work in earlier releases. Just Cygwin 3.6 chokes on SMB filesystems.
Question: How can someone install a specific Cygwin 64bit release?
Dan
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Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd