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Re: Permissions problem - odd setup


Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
I have a somewhat odd setup here and am having a permissions problem with my userid and authentication.

In general I'm trying to have one home directory that is shared between Windows and Linux. On Windows I use Cygwin. Normally this involves mounting my Windows oriented home directory and proper generation of my domain userid in /etc/passwd. Here things are a bit different.

My home directory here is on a Linux box running Samba. I login as <domain>\defaria on my Windows box. I have generated my /etc/password entry with mkpasswd -d -u defaria > /etc/passwd. However the Linux box running Samba does not participate in a domain rather it is using a workgroup.

The symptoms that I see are as follows:

While I can create a file in my home directory I cannot edit it - access denied:

$ cp opts.cfg opts.cfg.new
cp: cannot create regular file `opts.cfg.new': Permission denied
$ ls -l opts.cfg*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 98 Feb 14 11:17 opts.cfg
-rwxr--r-- 1 ???????? ????????  0 Feb 15 16:01 opts.cfg.new*

You'll note that the uid and gid is not correct.

I suspect the problem is that /etc/passwd has my domain SID yet my home directory is on a samba server that is not in the domain.

Is there any way to configure this properly? If so how?

Thanks.
Nobody has any ideas?!?
OK I'm quite shocked that nobody has any ideas at all on this, nothing to try, no suggestions, etc. Is this even getting through at all or is everybody stumped? I'd really like to get this working for me.
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