Scott, I've had some trouble with file permissions on samba shares under Win2k. Not anything as severe as yours, but the files created on a share didn't inherit the world read permissions of the directories (and those couldn't be set). I wonder if these are related? Igor
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Scott Prive wrote: > ...of course, when I do this (in either example), I have cd'd to the > CIFS share (/cygdrive/w/ in both cases) > > Also, the share is authenticated as a test account other than who I am > in the shell (shell user=Administrator; CIFS authenticated as user > 'foo'). > > I'm wondering if this has anything to do with my problem, but one would > expect to be able to authenticate CIFS shares as other users (I even > tried mapping the drive under plain Explorer). > > What puzzles me is if I start cmd.exe as a subprocess of bash, the > writes succeed. > > -Scott > > > Example: > > After authentication/mount (via net use), I try `echo "foo" > > >myfile.txt` -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- 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/