ntea dilemma

lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com
Mon Oct 7 07:41:00 GMT 2002


Actually, your statement about nt* options are a bit too general.  ntsec 
affects file permissions of NTFS partitions NT/W2K/XP (although it has
another important feature of enabling services to switch user contexts as
well on NT/W2K/XP - but this has no bearing on file permissions per se).  
ntea affects the interpretation of file permissions on NT-based systems 
(NT/W2K/XP) for NTFS or FAT partitions.  This should include FAT32 file 
systems.  The original poster may want to refer to the FAQ and look at:

Why doesn't chmod work?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC44

This has a good description of these two options and their use.  It's 
also worthwhile to check for the file "EA DATA .SF" (don't know that I have
that name exactly but it is close) at the root of the FAT(32) partition. 
If 
ntea is enabled and files there have had permissions set specifically, this 
file will exist.  Please make sure that you stop *all* Cygwin processes and
restart them after setting ntea though.  Reboot if you have to.

Larry


Original Message:
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From: Elfyn emcb_exposure@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:29:42 +0100
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ntea dilemma


Hi,

> The problem: I couldn't set 'ntea' to work properly in this configuration.
> 'ntsec' is ok, on XP's NTFS, but no chown & co. on FAT32.

The nt* cygwin environment variable options only work on ntfs partitions
because of their extensive permissions structure, so it would not work on
fat32...

Elfyn

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