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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
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Date:  Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:07:32 -0800
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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I have a somewhat odd setup here and am having a permissions problem 
> with my userid and authentication.
>
> In general I'm trying to have one home directory that is shared 
> between Windows and Linux. On Windows I use Cygwin. Normally this 
> involves mounting my Windows oriented home directory and proper 
> generation of my domain userid in /etc/passwd. Here things are a bit 
> different.
>
> My home directory here is on a Linux box running Samba. I login as 
> <domain>\defaria on my Windows box. I have generated my /etc/password 
> entry with mkpasswd -d -u defaria > /etc/passwd. However the Linux box 
> running Samba does not participate in a domain rather it is using a 
> workgroup.
>
> The symptoms that I see are as follows:
>
> While I can create a file in my home directory I cannot edit it - 
> access denied:
>
> $ cp opts.cfg opts.cfg.new
> cp: cannot create regular file `opts.cfg.new': Permission denied
> $ ls -l opts.cfg*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 98 Feb 14 11:17 opts.cfg
> -rwxr--r-- 1 ???????? ????????  0 Feb 15 16:01 opts.cfg.new*
>
> You'll note that the uid and gid is not correct.
>
> I suspect the problem is that /etc/passwd has my domain SID yet my 
> home directory is on a samba server that is not in the domain.
>
> Is there any way to configure this properly? If so how?
>
> Thanks.
Nobody has any ideas?!?


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