On Tue, 10 May 2005, Chip Olson wrote: > Quoth Larry Hall: > > At 03:03 PM 5/10/2005, you wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > I read in the archives that logging in with public-key authentication > > can cause problems like this, and indeed, if I log in via ssh with -o > > PubKeyAuthentication=no, the mount works fine (and reports my user's > > UID and GID, not 0 for both as when I mount from the desktop). > > > > I have another machine here that mounts just fine from a public-key > > ssh session. Unfortunately, the person who configured it is no longer > > with the company. :-( > > > > See the FAQ entry: > > > > Why don't my services work (or access network shares)? > > < http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC33> > > After reading the FAQ entry, the referenced cygrunsrv README and > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html, I made the following > changes to my configuration, independently of each other: > > - Changed the group IDs of Administrator and my user account from 513 > (None) to 544 (Administrators). This had no effect.
Read the above page again, please. If I understood your statement correctly, you've edited /etc/passwd and /etc/group directly. This is not *supposed* to have any effect, unless you use the appropriate Windows tools to adjust group memberships. > - Reinstalled sshd so as to log in as Administrator, as follows: > > cygrunsrv --install sshd -u Administrator -w mypasswd -p /usr/sbin/sshd.exe > > When I subsequently ran cygrunsrv --start sshd, I got: > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1053: > The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely > fashion. The usual place to look for the actual errors when starting sshd is the Windows event log. > sshd was then hung in "starting" state, according to Service Manager, > and I had to reboot to clear it. FWIW, you can try killing the corresponding cygrunsrv process (using either the Task Manager or "/bin/kill -f") instead of rebooting. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/