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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040528160424.03234d00@pop.theworld.com> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 16:06:43 -0400 To: jos AT catnook DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: 1.3.22 -> 1.5.10: chmod behavior change In-Reply-To: <20040528192536.GA89120@lizzy.catnook.com> References: <20040528192536 DOT GA89120 AT lizzy DOT catnook DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:25 PM 5/28/2004, you wrote: >Please consider the following. /z is a CIFS (NetApp) share. > >1.3.22: > >~> cd /z > >/z> rm -f x > >/z> touch x > >/z> ls -l x >-rw-r--r-- 1 josb mkpasswd 0 May 28 12:16 x > >/z> chmod -w x > >/z> ls -l x >-r--r--r-- 1 josb mkpasswd 0 May 28 12:16 x > >1.5.10: > >~> cd /z > >/z> rm -f x > >/z> touch x > >/z> ls -l x >-rw-r--r-- 1 josb mkpasswd 0 May 28 12:18 x > >/z> chmod -w x >chmod: changing permissions of `x': Permission denied > >/z> ls -l x >-rw-r--r-- 1 josb mkpasswd 0 May 28 12:18 x > >/z> > >It seems that chmod no longer works on network shares. How do I make it work >again? Your help is appreciated. Please follow the guidelines outlined here for reporting problems: >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Without the benefit of the above, I'm forced to ask whether you set "smbntsec" in your Cygwin environment variable? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/