Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <38A1EB5D.EEFA5558@vinschen.de> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 23:34:05 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Grishaw CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: File permissions on Network Drives References: <20000208054904 DOT SKEM18508 DOT mta04 DOT onebox DOT com AT onebox DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit James Grishaw wrote: > > Dear Cygnus, > > Are chmod and umask expected to work on a network drive? > > I have my CYGWIN variable set to "ntea ntsec" and all permissions > appear to work just like UNIX. However, file permissions do NOT appear > to work with a network drive on a UNIX server. > [...] ntea is only a trick to simulate permission bits on NTFS partitions, so they are not supported on other drive types. If you use ntsec, you don't have to use ntea. It does only result in less usable disk space. If the network drive is a NTFS partition, ntsec will work. The security is implemented using NT security API calls which are definitely neither supported by FAT and FAT32 and AFAIK nor by SAMBA or any NFS driver. > I am running Cygwin v1.0 under WinNT SP3. You should update to at least SP5. SP3 has still many Y2K bugs. Regards, Corinna -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com