X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44C6A114.2020304@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:54:12 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: MS Windows 2k3 domain users issue References: <599515fa0607251506t38ecf38aga64d95f8db8c3ea6 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <599515fa0607251506t38ecf38aga64d95f8db8c3ea6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 MyStiC wrote: >> From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" >> It's not clear whether your '/etc/groups' file is up-to-date on your XP >> machine. Try running 'mkgroup -l -d >/etc/group'. If you have trouble > > XP machine is at my office and the w2k3 server is at my residence. > The 'etc/group' file on the XP box was build local to the machine and > the domain it is connected to as well as the password file. According > to the documentation I've seen on this, the client side (connecting > from) 'group & passwd' files do not 'participate' in the > authentication to the server. That the 'server side' is unable to > properly validate the incoming client credentials against the 'server > side' '/etc/group & /etc/passwd' files. So you're saying that the user you're connecting to your server with is in the '/etc/passwd' file on the server and that the '/etc/group' on that server contains the group specified in the '/etc/passwd' for that user? >> doing this, check if you need to specify your domain as well. > > Example of SSH connection process: > SSH ssh_server_domain_name -l username > > adding the @ and domain behind the username also does not work. > Administrators have no problem connecting, but no other users can. My reference to the domain was relative to generating proper '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' files on your server for the users in question. See 'man mkpasswd' and 'man mkgroup'. Can a non-domain user connect? Sounds to me like this is a permissions issue. Have you checked that Cygwin thinks the user has access to his/her home directory, etc? You may also find it useful to run a version of the server with verbosity/debugging turned on so you can see any messages that may get generated. It's often helpful in these cases. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (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/