Permission denied on a windows share
Jehan
nahor@bravobrava.com
Sun Jul 14 08:44:00 GMT 2002
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> One thing is certain, Cygwin cannot override Windows permissions. If you
> can read (or write or remove, etc.) the file from a Cygwin application,
> you can read (write, remove) it from a Windows native app. I'm not
> certain the reverse is true, however.
Obviously it isn't since I can modify a file with Notepad but I can't
modify the same file with Cygwin. The question is why. Cygwin seems to
check if me (local user jehan) has write access to the file (the answer
is no, a local user can't exists on a domain anyway, it's the other me
(domain user jehan) that has write access). But why does cygwin check
that, why doesn't it leave it to Windows to verify the permissions?
> Sorry to equivocate so, but since you seemed a little desperate, I
> figured I'd try to help.
Not desperate. Frustrated more likely. You see, I'm jongling between a
Unix box (where my account is) and Windows. So there are files I share
between the two (like the .bashrc, .ssh and the like). And not being
able to write to those files can be annoying.
Jehan
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