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: ----------------- From: Elfyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:29:42 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
