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Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 22:54:44 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From: Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Subject:  Re: problem with telnet and ftp server on win 2K
To: Dave Bodenstab <imdave1 AT mindspring DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On Thu, 02 May 2002 23:44:50 -0500 Dave Bodenstab <imdave1 AT mindspring DOT com> wrote:

> David Starks-Browning wrote:
> > 
> > This has been discussed on the mailing list before, search the
> > archives.  I noticed it with cygwin-1.3.10 on NT4, and found that
> > enabling ntsec solved the problem for me.  But there are lots of
> > things to check, like the correctness of your /etc/passwd and
> > /etc/group files, rights given to the inetd service account,
> > execute permissions on the applications and cygwin1.dll, ...
> > 
> > It's a mystery, to me, why it fails without ntsec but works with
> > ntsec, all other things being the same.  But I've stopped worrying
> > about it, now that I use ntsec.

> I'm totally new to nt4, so could I ask what thingy I click and
> what to change to enable this ntsec thing?  The previous poster
> mentioned that he'd been able to use the control panel, but I see
> no cygwin icon when I bring up the control panel... perhaps he's
> not using nt.  Is the registry thing what I need to change?  If so,
> how does one change it?
> 
> If this stuff is discussed in a beginners guide to nt, or a help
> file that I just need to read, then a pointer would be very welcome.

It would be useful to scan the documentation at http://cygwin.com/ .  Some
of your questions are answered there.  For this, look for the CYGWIN
environment variable.

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