X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=hYAMf2M3JPhHPcaT kPgQgBHatWH6Vg1KtcSp7Y20T/LuUEVX070IoLLHmzy00sgJW8t8v6TDWKxBvIo7 R7Ty8YWKI+T/zzXlCJFvbc5C3lX12HUciShlc1c/kavFs/S2jm09Kr0cb34VhtNW 94oSd3OwA/aBZqp93fApMAaQ6Fg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=LebYuGzvQUYG9AkGZuCTHf XpyhU=; b=IfYuOt9Dml3awD6s9tPd12ghrqCjhUuy/jsMwy9rDuyheY8HM1Yqt/ 5H6Pbjez2185/3aj+ynY3DfSGd+b4LY7/Ls+mInBIgR0oBzrT3m/65FMACY4nLmd aWDajz/of5z6RsjA0/US1a3nRD4s5KxM+1+Q1Thl6oce30kg5oq6w= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:878 X-HELO: mail-qt0-f173.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lkpIC5sQw+EIPgBcAzuO3CfT/j3cjXsIlimeHZb4RIE=; b=H6WacgnsnkSTa7CeTMK+RQdSTRbO9/R2H0zYZJSD1KnTyMOOJ1vyBhoyXzwVMFmMHZ kEO25HjIapW3CwFNZz5mFOB7J5Xnsr/We4GM5bVvusRnCtn34M1RYIAPS4VxNaVOSH7/ oc0bb+SbfciW4zzX2jj00LasSXhWwROeOeqSqvOV36p+mNaUXYczDy2lH1Vlxs08wxZ2 bGak/W0R6K7pWe/FnI7S03UTkZuQyjHU+H8Dk3kS2C2KWv7gRHsZNc0t2tcnPrlRniNc e531bFm3oFHhV7mPm9VYhoDHo3/hoI6XdMh3GZsUh2O/5jB1c0RcdmnBCv6qMKSGyNGL mIMQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC008AUcXU8s4aKMVDJWn6mJfuO6/pLFFWg7nO5IR34kFA/FuYHuoxXjnsilaXljIag== X-Received: by 10.237.54.193 with SMTP id f59mr3791110qtb.14.1480515814605; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 06:23:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: chmod failing on user's permissions To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <583CC53B DOT 2060206 AT tlinx DOT org> From: Ben Altman Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:23:12 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <583CC53B.2060206@tlinx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 11/28/2016 7:00 PM, L. A. Walsh wrote: > Ben Altman wrote: When I get a directory listing, it shows for each >> file "Unknown+User Unknown+Group" while on the desktop the same files >> show my user name that I logged in with and "Domain Users" as the >> group. > --- > Is your laptop a member of the domain? How do each of them > resolve User&Group ID's? > > >> It also shows as unknown if I create a file on the laptop. > ---- > It doesn't sound like your laptop is looking up the ID's from the same > location as your desktop, and perhaps more likely, > it doesn't sound like your laptop is looking up ID's by checking > with the domain. > Thanks for you response. I tracked down the issue to there not being any /etc/group file. I did a "mkgroup > /etc/group" and the issue went away. I am not sure why the file wasn't there. Ben -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple