Can't execute scripts from a samba share with 1.7

[Nahor]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug  6 10:50, Nahor wrote:
>   
>> One weird thing though, the directory permission are 700 and yet I can  
>> list the content of the directory, cd in it and add/delete files. So  
>> permissions are not consistently checked. But then, I assume it's  
>> because all that is done by Windows/Samba while the permission check on  
>> the script is done by Cygwin? Same thing with executing binary (I was  
>> able to execute a binary file copied on the share even though I couldn't  
>> execute scripts)?
>>     
> Most of Cygwin relys on the permission checks of the underlying OS.
> In case of scripts, that's not possible.  Therefore it has to check
> script permissions explicitely.  Note that it doesn't do a simple
> POSIX permission bit check, rather it calls an OS function asking
> "does *this* account have the right to execute *that* file?"  That
> should result in the most consistent behaviour, as far as Windows
> consistency goes.
>   

Cygwin can't also check with an account with the same login and 
password? I assume that's what Windows does and why I'm allowed, as a 
user LOCAL\nahor, to access the share that belongs exclusively to the 
user DOMAIN\nahor.

    Nahor


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