Incorrect names for file owners on mapped samba drives

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/02/2009 08:58 AM, John Daintree wrote:
> Thanks for the examples. I had read the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup
> (honest!), but I must have had my incantations a little wrong.
>
> I have most of the users and groups over now. Interestingly the "root" group
> still displays as "????????" in the ls output, but such files are rare and I
> can live with that for now.

See <http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-filemodes.html> if you're 
interested
in the details here.

Sorry about the posix/acl mix-up.  I'm still getting used to the new flags 
in 1.7 and
haven't committed everything to memory yet, as you can see. ;-)

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