Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:02:52 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Permission denied on a windows share Message-ID: <20020715130252.B17700@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020713194509 DOT 02bb9210 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020713204337 DOT 02acf938 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com> <3D3101AC DOT 7050905 AT bravobrava DOT com> <6322-Mon15Jul2002110834+0100-starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6322-Mon15Jul2002110834+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:08:34AM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote: > On Saturday 13 Jul 02, Jehan writes: > > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > One thing is certain, Cygwin cannot override Windows permissions. If you > > > can read (or write or remove, etc.) the file from a Cygwin application, > > > you can read (write, remove) it from a Windows native app. I'm not > > > certain the reverse is true, however. > > > > Obviously it isn't since I can modify a file with Notepad but I can't > > modify the same file with Cygwin. The question is why. > > I believe that windows will automatically attempt to "authenticate" as > the domain user using your existing username/password. Apparently, > Cygwin doesn't do this. I don't believe that's correct. If you're running in a local session the applications don't have to care for authentication agains the file server. That's done automatically in Windows (as long as the credentials are ok to access the share). From that point of view, any Cygwin application is not different from any native Windows app. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/