on Tue Mar 13 2007, David Abrahams <dave-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:
> on Mon Mar 12 2007, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin-AT-cygwin.com> wrote: > >> On Mar 9 12:42, David Abrahams wrote: >>> Corinna, if you indeed have a very basic setup, it should be very easy >>> to find out where my setup differs. I sure would appreciate it. >> >> Well, if you can tell me what parameter I should look for, I can tell >> you my setting. > > Well, I'm not really sure what to look for either, but let's start > with the environment. When you ssh into your XP32 machine and do > > set | grep USER > > what do you see? I see > > ALLUSERSPROFILE='C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' > USER=dave > USERDOMAIN='NT AUTHORITY' > USERNAME=SYSTEM > USERPROFILE='C:\Documents and Settings\dave' > > So it appears XP thinks I"m the local system user. From what I've > read, the local system user doesn't have permission to "net use" > anything. A cygwin shell launched directly under XP32 reports: > > ALLUSERSPROFILE='C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' > USER=dave > USERDOMAIN=HYDRA-XP > USERNAME=dave > USERPROFILE='C:\Documents and Settings\dave' Also, what do you get from net config workstation ? For me it's: System error 1312 has occurred. A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated. Note also that I don't have a domain; my winoze boxes are just members of a workgroup. I don't really know the difference (pointers appreciated), but if you think it would help I could try to establish a domain. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com -- 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/