X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MIME_BASE64_BLANKS,MIME_BASE64_TEXT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_MK X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-SpamScore: 0 X-BigFish: VS0(zzzz1202hzzz2dh87h2a8h668h839h944h) X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:65.55.171.153;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPV:NLI;H:VA3DIAHUB090.RED001.local;RD:smtp801.microsoftonline.com;EFVD:NLI X-FB-DOMAIN-IP-MATCH: fail From: "Furash, Gary F - (furashg)" To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:01:49 -0800 Subject: Re: No Network Access Nearly Resolved Message-ID: <700D72CA56E7824BAB8BEB5A614C62C213746849CA@VA3DIAXVS331.RED001.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id q1AI2OqB010595 Hi Corrina: > For a start, maybe you should set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group as they are supposed to be, not as you think they should be: > $ mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd > $ mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group Even when I run mkpasswd from a dos prompt (that can see mkpasswd) and can resolve network names, adding the "-d" parameter causes it to pause forever, whereas the mkgroup works immediately (several thousand entries).