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Subject: RE: chmod not working on Windows XP
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Igor:

Thanks, including "smbntsec" in the CYGWIN environment variable solved
my problem.

Derek

-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu] 
Sent: October 3, 2003 1:15 PM
To: Derek Mahar
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: chmod not working on Windows XP


Derek,

Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: setting.  There's no
need to even Cc: me -- I read the list.

Network permissions are controlled by the "smbntsec" setting of the
Cygwin environment variable.  However, it should be on by default.

Your cygcheck output looks normal.  I'm out of ideas for now.  Maybe
someone else can think of something.
	Igor

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Derek Mahar wrote:

> Igor:
>
> Thanks for the tip.  Please see attached cygcheck.out that contains 
> the output to cygcheck -svr.
>
> I was changing file permissions on my home directory on a network 
> drive, so this is probably why it did not work, even though that drive

> is NTFS. Using chmod to change the file permissions of a file on 
> /cygdrive/c had the intended result.
>
> Derek
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
> Sent: October 3, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: Derek Mahar
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: chmod not working on Windows XP
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Derek Mahar wrote:
>
> > After having read the FAQ and setting CYGWIN to "ntsec tty", chmod 
> > still does not change file permissions on my Windows XP system.  
> > I've created /etc/passwd and /etc/group as follows:
> >
> > mkpasswd --local --domain > /etc/passwd
> > mkgroup --local --domain > /etc/group
> >
> > My system configuration is:
> >
> > Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> > Cygwin 1.5.5-1
> >
> > What am I overlooking?
> > Thanks,
> > Derek
>
> You're apparently overlooking the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines 
> at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially the bit about 
> attaching (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of 
> "cygcheck -svr". That output will provide information to confirm or 
> deny my guess below.
>
> Are you using FAT or FAT32?  If the former, read up on the "ntea" 
> setting in the CYGWIN environment variable 
> (<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>).  If the 
> latter, you're out of luck, apparently. 
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
>         Igor

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