X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B8DCA10.9010306@wesbarris.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:31:44 +1000 From: Wes Barris User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group References: <4B8B4B2E.1040506@wesbarris.com> <4B8C1AF8.7010701@gmail.com> <4B8C48EE.5040006@wesbarris.com> <4B8DB0C7.2000403@gmail.com> <4B8DAEAA.8060605@wesbarris.com> <4B8DC9D4.9020400@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B8DC9D4.9020400@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Dave Korn wrote: > On 03/03/2010 00:34, Wes Barris wrote: > >> My W: drive is a mapped network drive. However, it is mapped to a >> share coming from the same physical computer. This drive contains >> all of my data including a folder that I wish to use as my home >> directory (W: is mapped to //mycomputer/share/home). > > Just to check the obvious: is it mapped with the default (i.e., read-only!) > permissions, or did you open it up? When I enabled sharing on that drive I checked the box that would allow network users to modify the files. >> The contents of this drive was copied from my previous computer >> on which I used the same username. > > Argh. Ouch. That's probably part of the problem. Using the same username > on a different computer does *not* give your user account the same identity, > when we're talking about local machine accounts rather than domain/workgroup > accounts. > > How *exactly* did you copy "the contents of this drive" across? I put the two drives into the same computer and used Windows to copy the contents from one drive to the other. This was done in the new computer. I have also re-installed Windows on the new computer. Does re-installing Windows change the machine portion of the SID or is the SID tied to hardware? > cheers, > DaveK > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Wes Barris -------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's fortune: Memory should be the starting point of the present. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple