X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jerome Fong Subject: Re: mkpasswd (264): [5] Access is denied. Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:52:50 -0800 Lines: 40 Message-ID: <477D6742.6020404@successmetricsinc.com> References: <002801c84e59$b1a55f00$6402a8c0@rtt42p> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <002801c84e59$b1a55f00$6402a8c0@rtt42p> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Hi Roger, I am running Windows XP SP2, the other machine I tried was running Vista with all the current security patches install (but not SP1). I was thinking it was more of a domain server issue? Jerome roger wrote: > I was an early poster on this problem and have not resolved it yet -- just > living with it since it is a single user installation. My guess is that it > has to do with Windows security policies. I am running XP SP1 with the > problem. At work we run WS2003 with no problem. What is your OS? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerome Fong [mailto:jfong@successmetricsinc.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 15:38 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: mkpasswd (264): [5] Access is denied. > > I'm get the mkpasswd error now even though I wasn't getting it before. > I've tried this on several machines now running both XP and Vista > without much luck. Therefore it doesn't appear to be a OS problem. > > I saw the previous thread that said: > > "Nothing Cygwin can do anything about. The access denied error came > directly from the Windows system call NetUserEnum. The culprit is on > the server side which returns the user records." > > However, I didn't see what I need to change on the Windows system side > to fix this problem. My System Admin is willing to make changes, but we > need to know what needs to change? Does anyone have any idea? > > thanks, > > Jerome > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/