From: "John Daintree" <johnd@dyalog.com>
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Subject: RE: Incorrect names for file owners on mapped samba drives
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:58:55 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen 
> Sent: 02 November 2009 12:31
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Incorrect names for file owners on mapped samba drives
> 
> If you want nice entries in ls -l output, add the users and groups to
> your local /etc/passwd and /etc/group files using mkpasswd and mkgroup
> with the new -U options:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup
> 
> For instance:
> 
>   $ mkpasswd -U root,corinna -S_ -L my_samba_box
>   Unix User_root:unused:10000:99999:,S-1-22-1-0::
>   Unix User_corinna:unused:10500:99999:,S-1-22-1-500::
>   $ mkpasswd -U root,corinna -S_ -L my_samba_box >> /etc/passwd
>   $ mkgroup -U root,corinna -S_ -L my_samba_box
>   Unix Group_root:S-1-22-2-0:10000:
>   Unix Group_vinschen:S-1-22-2-11125:21125:
>   $ mkgroup -U root,corinna -S_ -L my_samba_box >> /etc/group
>   $ cd //my_samba_box/my_share
>   $ ls -l some_file
>   -rw------- 1 UnixUser_corinna UnixGroup_vinschen 172 2009-09-22 16:27
> some_file
> 


Hi Corinna,

Thanks for the examples. I had read the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup
(honest!), but I must have had my incantations a little wrong.

I have most of the users and groups over now. Interestingly the "root" group
still displays as "????????" in the ls output, but such files are rare and I
can live with that for now.

Thanks again.
/john


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