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From:	"Andy Hall" <fixpertise-consulting AT comcast DOT net>
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Subject:	In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?
Date:	Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:40:06 -0700
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I have a vanilla 1.7.7 installation on Windows XP Professional which is a
standalone machine not in a domain.   The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files
have been refreshed from scratch.

The system has a remote file system (Samba) mounted as F: via the normal 
Windows mechanism for mapping network drives.   

With the default /etc/fstab file which has no specific mounts, the 
mount command shows

$ mount
C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
F: on /cygdrive/f type smbfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)

and ls -l of /cygdrive/f shows

$ ls -l /cygdrive/f
total 2048
drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds
drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases

If instead, I map F: to /cygdrive/c with the following entry in /etc/fstab

F: /cygdrive/f smbfs binary,noacl 0 0

mount shows

$ mount
C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
F: on /cygdrive/f type smbfs (binary,noacl)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)

And ls -l of /cygdrive/f shows

$ ls -l /cygdrive/f
total 2048
drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds
drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases


If instead I now map F: to /repos1 via the following in /etc/fstab 

F: /repos1 smbfs binary,noacl 0 0

Mount shows

$ mount
C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
F: on /repos1 type smbfs (binary,noacl)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)

And ls -l of repos1 shows

$ ls -l /repos1
total 2048
drwxr-xr-x 36 ahall None 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds
drwxr-xr-x 17 ahall None 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases

Why am I getting -1 for the uid and gid when I mount to /cygdrive/f but not
to /repos1?

Andy




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