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Date:	Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:57:32 -0800
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Hi Roger,

I am running Windows XP SP2, the other machine I tried was running Vista 
with all the current security patches install (but not SP1).  I was 
thinking it was more of a domain server issue?

Jerome

roger wrote:
> I was an early poster on this problem and have not resolved it yet -- just
> living with it since it is a single user installation. My guess is that it
> has to do with Windows security policies. I am running XP SP1 with the
> problem. At work we run WS2003 with no problem. What is your OS?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerome Fong [mailto:jfong AT successmetricsinc DOT com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 15:38
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: mkpasswd (264): [5] Access is denied.
> 
> I'm get the mkpasswd error now even though I wasn't getting it before. 
> I've tried this on several machines now running both XP and Vista 
> without much luck.  Therefore it doesn't appear to be a OS problem.
> 
> I saw the previous thread that said:
> 
> "Nothing Cygwin can do anything about.  The access denied error came
> directly from the Windows system call NetUserEnum.  The culprit is on
> the server side which returns the user records."
> 
> However, I didn't see what I need to change on the Windows system side 
> to fix this problem.  My System Admin is willing to make changes, but we 
> need to know what needs to change?  Does anyone have any idea?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Jerome
> 
> 
> 


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