RE: RESOLVED: Cygwin can't write to CIFS... but cmd.exe *can* (more)

["Scott Prive" <Scott dot Prive at storigen dot com>]

YES thank you sir! :-D

 that helped me find this:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-12/msg00877.html

For the archive: Add to NT Environment "nontsec=smb" (no quotes, append to your existing CYGWIN value).

I did search the list before posting, but my search (CIFS, Permission) got ZERO hits. Surprisingly, even the refined search (smb nontsec) got only a few hits... all talking about this problem BEFORE the feature code was added (discussion was still taking place as to what the variable should be, including "ilikepie=yes" :-)

Interestingly, some folks had suggested that the Cygwin default mirror CMD.EXE behavior, as it would be "less confusing" (I agree). I didn't see a reply to that suggestion.

This would be a great addition to the FAQ IMO, even if it only references a search to the archives, because you need to know the answer to get a hit on this search...

-Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald MacVicar [mailto:donald@dramgo.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:12 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Cygwin can't write to CIFS... but cmd.exe *can* (more)
> 
> 
> There is loads of stuff in the list archives on this. If you 
> have local 
> user accounts on the Win machine (rather than domain accounts) and 
> access using shares using the unix account then the UID/GID are 
> different, you can set CYGWIN too some value - I think it is 
> smbnontsec, 
> someone  can correct me if I cam wrong.
> 
> Using a different user for authentication on the samba share that the 
> current user will work fine under win but because of the UID changes 
> will not work under cygwin unless the smbnontsec is added to 
> the CYGWIN 
> enviroment variable.
> 
> A search of the archives will give you plenty more on this.
> 
> Donald.
> 
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> >Scott,
> >I've had some trouble with file permissions on samba shares 
> under Win2k.
> >Not anything as severe as yours, but the files created on a 
> share didn't
> >inherit the world read permissions of the directories (and 
> those couldn't
> >be set).  I wonder if these are related?
> >	Igor
> >
> >On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Scott Prive wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>...of course, when I do this (in either example), I have cd'd to the
> >>CIFS share (/cygdrive/w/ in both cases)
> >>
> >>Also, the share is authenticated as a test account other 
> than who I am
> >>in the shell (shell user=Administrator; CIFS authenticated as user
> >>'foo').
> >>
> >>I'm wondering if this has anything to do with my problem, 
> but one would
> >>expect to be able to authenticate CIFS shares as other users (I even
> >>tried mapping the drive under plain Explorer).
> >>
> >>What puzzles me is if I start cmd.exe as a subprocess of bash, the
> >>writes succeed.
> >>
> >>-Scott
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Example:
> >>>After authentication/mount (via net use), I try `echo "foo"
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>myfile.txt`
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
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