On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:47:51AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >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.
Perhaps you meant to imply that CYGWIN=nontsec should not be used but if you are going to go down this road then you might have to prove that a few other no... options should not be used either. I think the basic advice is actually "Don't randomly change CYGWIN settings in an attemp to fix a problem unless you understand what they do or have been instructed to change them by someone who understands what they do". 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/
