All my files are on drive P: in Windows, which is an SMB share equivalent to \\fsfs\ddb\Documents. Everything works fine in windows apps, and I see what I expect in Explorer, including when I go down to security properties and look in detail.
However, Cygwin has trouble with this lately (I can't trace exactly when it started happening; not weeks, maybe a year, but I've been running essentially this way since 2006 and most of the time things were fine). Cygwin appears to be accessing the share as some kind of unknown user, rather than as the proper user configured in Windows for that share (which is FSFS\ddb). In Cygwin "id" shows $ id uid=197608(David Dyer-Bennet) gid=197121(None) groups=197121(None),114(Local account and member of Administrators group),544(Administrators),545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(CONSOLE LOGON),11(Authenticated Users),15(This Organization),113(Local account),66048(LOCAL),262154(NTLM Authentication),405504(High Mandatory Level) but if I create a file it gets created owned by "Unknown+User": $ touch foobar David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 /cygdrive/p $ ls -l foobar ----r--r-- 1 Unknown+User Unix_Group+1001 0 May 28 17:27 foobar David Dyer-Bennet@DDB4 /cygdrive/p $ getfacl foobar # file: foobar # owner: Unknown+User # group: Unix_Group+1001 user::--- group::r-- other:r-- And then of course I can't access it: $ echo things >> foobar -bash: foobar: Permission denied I haven't that I've noticed done anything to change what user I run as; $USER is "David Dyer-Bennet" (the Windows username I'm in under), and /etc/passwd has default output from mkpasswd, including the user "David Dyer-Bennet" with the UID 197608 (same is ID shows at the command line). At least I can count on people here not answering "just ditch Cygwin"...right? -- David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> http://dd-b.net/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
