Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:05:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eric Berge <emberge AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: How to correctly setup passwd and group to access mounted  drives?
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A nice way to check for being the "right" user is to use
the "whoami" utility - the windows version out in \windows\system32,
not the cygwin one.  If it displays that you are "sshd_server" things
are not well.

I still do not fully understand the need to do this, but on some
recent systems I've installed it was necessary to generate the
groups file with the -u flag to place the user names in the groups
they belong to.  Perhaps that might help (and perhaps someone with
more knowledge can comment on the correctness of this suggestion...):

    mkgroup -l -d -u > /etc/group

(you can leave off the -d if you're not in a domain)

-- Eric


----- Original Message ----
From: Spiro Trikaliotis <an-cygwin AT spiro DOT trikaliotis DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2008 11:46:59 AM
Subject: Re: How to correctly setup passwd and group to access mounted  drives?

Hello,

* On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 12:59:37PM +0000 uday wrote:

> Problem in short: 
> ================= 
> 
> I have a folder on a unix server mapped as a windows drive z(y is another drive from 
> another unix server). 
> I am able to browse through the folders from windows explorer and read/write there. 
> 
> I am running into an issue when I access those mapped network drives from cygwin. 
> When I try I get the following error message " 
> uday_p AT uday-xp /cygdrive 
> $ ls -l 
> total 4 
> drwxrwxr-x+ 30 ???????? SYSTEM 0 Jun 3 09:35 c 
> drwxr-xr-x 37 uday_p Domain Users 1536 Mar 12 23:34 y 
> drwxr-xr-x 36 uday_p Domain Users 1536 May 31 23:58 z 
> 
> uday_p AT uday-xp /cygdrive 
> $ ls y 
> ls: reading directory y: Permission denied 

I know this behaviour in case when you log on via ssh, and you are using
the passwordless authentication (i.e., public key authentication). In
this case, Windows does not know about your passwords, and you get the
permission denied. This is already known - at least, it was when I
investigated this some years before.

Unfortunately, running "net use \\\\myserver\\myshare /user:myuser" to
enter the password does not work either when you connect via ssh.

Workaround: Use passwords instead of public keys.

So: Are you using these commands "directly" from bash, or are you
remotely connected via ssh?

Best regards,
Spiro.

-- 
Spiro R. Trikaliotis                              http://opencbm.sf.net/
http://www.trikaliotis.net/                    http://www.viceteam.org/

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