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: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:51:02 -0600 Message-Id: <200212191951.gBJJp2G32730@tigris.pounder.sol.net> X-Authentication-Warning: tigris.pounder.sol.net: rodmant set sender to nicebounce AT trodman DOT com (Tom Rodman) using -f To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-note: 1G0!G/usr/sbin/sendmail -v -t -f"nicebounce AT trodman DOT com (Tom Rodman)" # for less traceable mail From: nicebounce AT trodman DOT com (Tom Rodman) Subject: NTSEC & ntwrk drives?; "chown/chmod/ls -l" only wrkg on local drives Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII -------- chown,chmod and ls -l work just fine on local drives, but not on network drives. My "/tmp" is on the local c drive, and "/cygdrive/s" is a network drive on our NT4.0 SP6A PDC; all commands below done on a NT6.0 SP6A workstatation in the same domain as the PDC. /tmp $ id -un adm_tsr /tmp $ groups ES_staff.gbl Administrators Domain Users ES_admin.gbl Users ccm_users.gbl /tmp $ for dir in /tmp /cygdrive/s ; do > cd $dir ; rm -f foo; touch foo; chown adm_ds foo > ls -l foo > echo $(getowner foo) # see http://peter.verhas.com/progs/c/nt/owner/ > rm -f foo > done -rw-rw-r-- 1 adm_ds ES_staff 0 Dec 19 13:35 foo adm_ds -rw-r--r-- 1 adm_tsr ES_staff 0 Dec 19 13:35 foo Administrators For /cygdrive/s/foo, chown silently failed and ls -l foo said "adm_tsr" owned foo when "Administrators" was the real owner. What am I missing? Is there a fix for this, or do I have an incorrect config setting? I have included more background info below. -- thanks/regards, Tom Rodman perl -e 'print unpack("u", "\.\=\$\!T\