X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <477D97E0.2080301@veritech.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:20:16 -0500 From: "Lee D. Rothstein" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mkpasswd (264): [5] Access is denied. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.0.1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Have you tried?: Explorer / Right click dir or drive / Properties / Security / /...? I've just spent two weeks fighting through similar problems with Vista that I never had with XP. I'm not sure whether the problem was Vista or the config the vendor put on the system disk!? Jerome Fong wrote: > 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/ > > -- 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/