chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec  3 14:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  3 13:13, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> > On 03/12/2013 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >On Dec  2 23:58, Charles Butterfield wrote:
> > >>Any suggestions on how to have a shortcut (or something similar) that
> > >>runs mintty as admin, but has no global effect on other mintty launches?
> > >You seem to have gotten something else wrong here.  If the shortcut has
> > >the "run as admin" flag, it only affects this shortcut.  I have two
> > >shortcuts on the desktop, one called "Cygwin64 Terminal", the other one
> > >"Cygwin64 Admin".
> > I think the difference is where you select the checkbox. There's one
> > in Compatibility->Privilege Level->Run as admin, and another in
> > Shortcut->Advanced->Run as admin. The compatibility one is telling
> > windows that to execute mintty correctly it needs admin privileges,
> > so it always runs mintty this way. The latter is the one that just
> > affects the shortcut.
> 
> Spot on.  I guess that's it.  I completely forgot about the "run as
> admin" switch in the compatibility tab, only seeing the "run as admin"
> switch in the shortcut's advanced settings.

...despite Charles explicitely mentioning the compatibility thingy.  Duh.


Corinna

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