From: "Maglinger, Paul" <PMAGLINGER AT scvl DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: FW: File access slow with using key authentication.
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:09:00 +0000
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> 
> On 9/5/2012 4:47 PM, Maglinger, Paul wrote:
> > Anyone?
> >
> >
> > Running CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) on Windows 2008R2 box.
> >
> > When using SSH to come in through UNIX, we'd like to use public key
> > authentication. The problem is that when we do it can take up to 5 minutes
> > to even pull down a directory listing on a Windows share using ls -l from
> > the Cygwin terminal. If we do without the key and enter the password
> > manually, things speed up vastly, but we want to authenticate automatically
> > and would prefer to use a key. I believe I understand why it's happening,
> > but I'm having trouble figuring how to work around this. The goal is to have
> > Unix kick off a Perl script residing on the Windows server, which will
> > process files located on a CIFS share on a storage appliance. The Perl
> > script is using UNC to access the shared directories. I've even tried
> > various ways to mount the directories using fstab and that's not helping
> > either. I've only been working with Cygwin for less than a month and would
> > appreciate some insight.
> 
> I've read through your summary above at least twice now but I'm still
> having trouble grokking the details of what you're doing.  Judging by the
> lack of other responses, I'm guessing others are similarly stymied.
> Perhaps you should back up and read the problem reporting guidelines
> found at the link below:
> 
> > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> 
> Details are important.  Some pieces of information that may prove useful
> include:
> 
>    1. Does sshing to the same server (presumably running Cygwin's sshd)
>       from that or other Cygwin machine exhibit the same problem?
> 
>    2. How big is the directory you're running 'ls -l' on?  Do the results
>       change if you instead use just '"ls"'?
> 
>    3. Who's the storage appliance's vendor?  Who has permissions to access
>       it?  Keep in mind that public key authentication that's configured
>       for you by default doesn't allow unfettered access to network shares.
>       See <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview>
>       for a detailed description of the authentication options and
>       restrictions.
> 
> 
> --
> Larry
> 

Thanks for the reply.  I'm new to Cygwin and this list and wasn't sure what details I needed to include.  Let me gather some information and I'll get back with you.

-Paul

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