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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
Subject: Re: File permission problem
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:42:05 -0700
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Sep 24 02:36, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 24 01:43, Brian Dessent wrote:
>>>
>>>> jackylam@solomon-systech.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No, it is an NTFS on a network drive. Is it related?
>>>>
>>>> Yes. You probably lack the SeRestorePrivilege right on your login
>>>> token, or for some strange reason you have nosmbntsec set. RTFM:
>>>> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>
>>>
>>> nosmbntsec is default.
>>
>> If this is true then the docs need to be updated, or at least clarified.
>>
>> "(no)smbntsec - if set, use ntsec on remote drives as well (this is the
>> default)."
>
>
> Urgh. This is how I intended to implement it when I did ... three
> years ago? Dunno anymore, but nosmbntsec is default already for ages.
>
> I've changed the documentation.

I'm trying to understand why one would want ntsec on by default and 
smbntsec off by default?
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