Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:17:41 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Permission denied on a windows share Message-ID: <20020715191741.K6932@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020713194509.02bb9210@pop3.cris.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020713204337.02acf938@pop3.cris.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020713220237.02acf568@pop3.cris.com> <20020715112557.E6932@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:54:04AM -0700, Jehan wrote: > Jehan wrote: > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >>>Why would cygwin need to do more security checking than Windows does? > >>>Why would cygwin deny me write access to a file when I can do it with > >>>any other Windows application? > >> > >>It shouldn't. If the situation is *actually* as you describe it, > >>then there's a bug in Cygwin. However, this requires some debugging > >>in the environment in which this happens... yours. Perhaps an strace > >>of the failing call helps. > > > >Cool. Thanks. > >Here is the strace from a command "cp /tmp/install.sh .", with tmp being > >on my local drive and "." being "//server/jehan". Hmm, I didn't mean to have to review the strace alone. > added it myself to /etc/group because I can't get domain groups with > "mkgroup -d" (samba (our PDC) doesn't support domain groups AFIAK) (in > /etc/group: jehan:2007:2007:) Wait. It's a samba share you're accessing? If so, we do have problems with ntsec and samba shares. We don't have a solution for that, though. Use CYGWIN='ntsec nosmbntsec' to not use ntsec on shares. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/