Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:12:34 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: permissioning on samba-mounted drive Message-ID: <20010420121234.C23950@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <85256A33.0056EF34.00@nyc-ntgw-n01.ny.jpmorgan.com> <3ADF0E22.42A7F6D5@yahoo.com> <20010419184743.M12557@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20010419184743.M12557@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 06:47:43PM +0200 On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 06:47:43PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:11:14PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> Noel L Yap wrote: >> > >> > I looked through this and found nothing that says whether or not cygwin will >> > support this in the future. >> > >> >> Oh, sorry, I'm pretending to be Chris today. ;^T Yes, sometime in the >> future when somebody submits the patches to do so. Are you wanting to >> contribute patches? > >Nice try, Earnie ;-) > >Cygwin can't support real unix permissions using samba due to the >mapping problem between samba and windows user accounts and due >to the way Samba translates NT ACLs to UNIX permissions. You can >control the behaviour in several interesting ways by tuning your >smb.conf file on the samba server box (man smb.conf is your friend) >but you will always have some limitations. I have good experiences >using the following settings: Have you looked at the new version of Samba, Corinna? They've apparently made some improvements in this regard. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple