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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:44:01 +0100 (MET)
From: Benito Mourelo Caldeiro <benito AT udc DOT es>
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Subject: Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge
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> From cygwin-return-86545-benito=udc DOT es AT cygwin DOT com  Fri Jan 16 11:36:06 2004
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> Subject: Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge
> 
> On Jan 15 00:38, Chris January wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
> > > >> But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and
> > > >> use both, at least concurrently.  Cygwin and SFU both address
> > > >> the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools.  We'll
> > > >> see what happens though.
> > > >
> > > >One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/
> > > >I know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at
> > > >SFU.
> > >
> > > It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin.  We could develop
> > > filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS,
> > > EXTFS, etc.
> > >
> > > Didn't someone say they had a free month?  Perfect project.  :-)
> > 
> > Isn't the SFU NFS client an installable file system, i.e. you can use it
> > anywhere in Windows, not just with the SFU stuff?
> 
> Sort of.  A couple of DLLs, one or more services get started.  Then
> you can access the NFS paths from any Windows application.
> 
> The problem with that NFS client is this:
> 
> Even though it allows mapping between UNIX user names (from the evil
> "other" side) and Windows user names, it doesn't map the POSIX permission
> bits into NTFS like permissions.  If you look into the file property box,
> you'll see no "Security" tab.  The file access from Windows is a bit like
> access to files on FAT partitions.  The permissions are statically set in
> an administration MMC snap-in.
> 
> That's the unfortunate part which, for me, makes the NFS client in SFU
> unusable.
> 
> Corinna

In my XP SP1 box with SFU 3.5, the file property box has a "NFS Attribute"
with the POSIX file permissions an it change dynamically.
I dont understand what the problem is.  

Saudos, Benito.


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