Cygwin problems with a Samba share

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri May 14 21:24:00 GMT 2010


On May 12 17:18, George George wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After a fresh installation of the latest version of Cygwin on Windows
> XP Service Pack 2, cygwin refuses to work out the username and group
> for the files on a samba share running on a Linux machine. Could you
> please suggest any pointers where I can look for help?

In the User's Guide.  Cygwin never figured out the actual username
on the share.   It can do that now, but it's often not what you want.
See the "noacl" mount option.


Corinna

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