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 19:20:57 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: permissioning on samba-mounted drive Message-ID: <20010420192057.H15499@cygbert.vinschen.de> 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> <20010420121234.C23950@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010420121234.C23950@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:12:34PM -0400 On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:12:34PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. Not yet. I heard rumours but I was under the impression that ACLs are only supported fully if the server system supports them as well (as Solaris). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple