too many level of symbolic links

[Oskar Skog]

On 2022-02-17 10:46, Andreas Heckel wrote:
> I have a network drive mapped like
> //hostname/share --> p:
> 
> When trying to access the network drive via cygwin I get:
> 
> $ ls /cygdrive/p
> ls: cannot open directory '/cygdrive/p': Too many levels of symbolic links
> 
> Accessing the network share directly via //hostname/share works as normal.
> 
> I have been using cygwin a long time but this is the first time this happens. My machine and our servers got recently updated, so I can't really pinpoint the reason for this behaviour now.
> 
> Any hints / advice how to resolve this?
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> 
> 



Are you running the newest version of Cygwin (3.3.4)?, there have been
a similar issue to yours in the previous version that should have been
fixed.