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Re: Shared home dir, samba, and workgroups
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Wes Barris <wes dot barris at csiro dot au>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:12:50 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: Shared home dir, samba, and workgroups
--- Mar 9/3/10, Wes Barris ha scritto:
> Wes Barris wrote:
> > I use Cygwin 1.7 on my XP desktop system at
> work.? I like having the
> > same home directory on this Windows XP system as I do
> on our Unix
> > server.? The Windows XP system is a member of a
> domain.? The Unix
> > server is not.? The Unix server is running Samba
> and is configured
> > with a workgroup name.? My home directory on the
> Unix server is
> > mounted as a mapped network drive on the Windows XP
> system.
> >
> > Everything in the above setup is working
> > properly from the Unix server side and from the
> Windows side when
> > working with Windows Explorer.? I can create and
> delete files via
> > Windows Explorer and they show up on the Unix side
> with proper
> > ownership and permissions (as controlled by
> Samba).? Conversely,
> > I can create and delete files under Unix and access
> these files
> > from Windows Explorer.
> >
> > The problem is when I look at my mapped network home
> directory
> > with Cygwin, my home directory files are owned by
> nobody ('????????')
> > and have a group of nobody.? I am guessing that
> this is because my
> > Windows SID in /etc/passwd is the SID of my domain
> user and since
> > the Samba server is not part of this domain the files
> look like they
> > are from an unknown user.
> >
> > In our Samba server there is a file (usermap) that
> maps unix usernames
> > to windows usernames.? This appears to be working
> when working with
> > Windows Explorer.? Why doesn't this work with
> Cygwin?? What is the
> > way to fix this?? Do I somehow need to map my
> unix username to a
> > windows SID?? Do I need to turn off ntsec??
you need to map the WINDOWS SID to the UNIX username
so you need to add on /etc/passwd and etc/group
the right references.
see:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
> Do I need to change
> > the mount options for /cygdrive?
>
> Should I assume from the lack of any response that there is
> no fix
> for this?
>
> -- Wes Barris
I should say no
Marco
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