I have found that Vista tags filesystem objects as "shared" whenever they
contain references to any accounts other than the user. But, they are not
"network shared". Apparently, Cygwin developers do not see this behavior.
Maybe it depends if you use Home or Business versions of Vista, or whether
y
In fact, as I wrote it in previous message:
- I'm not concerned about cygwin home/install location, but more with the
program I wrote (that generates files and subdirectories), compiled with
gcc/cygwin, and that run over images directories (most of the time under
Desktop directories). In that case
On Nov 23, 2007 7:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Move your Cygwin home directory outside of the C:/Users tree. There's
> no reason to keep the Cygwin home directory in this tree. I'm using
> C:/cygwin/home/corinna and/or C:/home/corinna for years and I haven't
> had
On Nov 23 13:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Experimenting with various permission settings, I found that the
> "shared" tag only shows up if the file/dir has any combination of ACEs
> for the Users group or for Everyone, regardless of the actual
> permissions granted in the ACE.
...and for files th
On Nov 20 02:51, E.Baud wrote:
> nmehta wrote:
> > Also, if you create a directory in Cygwin on /c like you did it does not
> > show up as shared. If you create a directory in your Vista home directory
> > (/c/Users//) on the other hand it shows up as shared.
> > ...
> > I can also say that CYGW
Hello,
nmehta wrote:
>
> ...
> Also, if you create a directory in Cygwin on /c like you did it does not
> show up as shared. If you create a directory in your Vista home directory
> (/c/Users//) on the other hand it shows up as shared.
> ...
> I can also say that CYGWIN=notntsec does fix this
On 10/15/07, jxt <> wrote:
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> Now, as to the original question about shared folders being created by
> cygwin on vista, it appears that a solution is in hand, though I have not
> yet tested it in my envrionment. Indeed I had tried some googling, and
> even searching the archi
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote:
>
> It's harder than you might think after fielding hundreds of these types
> of questions, especially when such resources as google exist. Add to
> that the annoying obfuscation provided by nabble, and it is sometimes
> hard to be patient with misconceptions.
>
Ju
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 12:26:14AM -0700, nmehta wrote:
>You make some very good points. I mainly took exception to the tone of
>the response. It's not hard to be civil and (IMO) there's no reason to
>call that particular post "ridiculous". There were however problems
>with it, and I think your
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
> nmehta wrote:
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>> I can also say that CYGWIN=notntsec does fix this behavior (created
>> folders
>> are no longer shared). I have searched for information about this
>> setting
>> but haven't yet found a good explanation. Can you shed some light
nmehta wrote:
I can also say that CYGWIN=notntsec does fix this behavior (created folders
are no longer shared). I have searched for information about this setting
but haven't yet found a good explanation. Can you shed some light on what
this env variable does, and what are the conseque
Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> So, I don't see what's wrong here. The files created by the native app
> took the defaults from the dir, so if something is not happening the way
> you like make sure the dir is created with the right DACL first. Or if
> you'd rather have Cygwin behave like the native
nmehta wrote:
> Comparing a file touched in Cygwin vs a file created in Vista, the ACLs look
> different (Cygwin has 'Everyone' while Vista has 'SYSTEM', and Cygwin has
> 'Users' while Vista has the actual group you are in, or in this case
> 'Administrators'). If you remove the permissions on 'Us
jxt wrote:
However, as this is the *users* mailing list, I'm wondering if
developers hang out here regularly.
They do.
Is there somewhere else to post that would get more developer attention?
Nope. This is the right place.
Well, maybe there is... I'm sure if you called one of them, for exa
nmehta wrote:
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> I see the exact same behavior on every Cygwin/Vista installation I've
> done. This also happens when you create a file in Cygwin (just touch a
> file to test it). I can only presume that there is something
> fundamentally wrong about how Cygwin creates ACLs (Access Control Li
jxt wrote:
>
> If I do a mkdir in a bash shell, it creates a folder that vista thinks is
> shared. Doesn't happen in the normal vista cmd shell. Doesn't happen on
> XP. And turning off sharing in vista takes forever (minutes).
>
> Worse, if I untar a tgz file, in cmd or bash, it creates a vista
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