On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:51:29PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: >:-) Yes it works! > >Three important things are going wrong in "my" past: >1. /etc/passwd as well as /etc/group are necessary in windows to enable > cygwin to map windows SID/GID to posix uid/gid. >2. --numeric-ids are necessary during backup to server if the client uid/gid > is unknown there (whats probably the case) . During restore --numeric-ids > are not necessary because uid/gid should be known on client side. >3. The environment variable must be CYGWIN=ntsec, which is already the > default. > >Hopefully my summary above help other users :-)
The phrase "must be...which is already the default" does not make logical sense. cgf -- 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/
