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Re: Cygwin + Samba = Permission Denied


On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:30:26PM +0100, Milos Komarcevic wrote:
> I'm experiencing the exact same problem here as reported earlier:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg00702.html
> 
> I have tried the solution proposed in Chris Metcalf's FAQ
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg01021.html)
> but that did not do the trick. I can read the files ok, but there is
> still the problem of writing as described in the post above:
> 
> cygwin(MK329PC)~$ ls -l foo
> -rwxrwx---    1 mk329    administ       81 Jun 17 19:21 foo
> cygwin(MK329PC)~$ cp foo /cygdrive/z
> cp: cannot create regular file `/cygdrive/z/foo': Permission denied
> cygwin(MK329PC)~$ ls -l /cygdrive/z/foo
> -rwx------    1 mk329    divb            0 Jun 17 19:21 /cygdrive/z/foo
> 
> I cannot change the settings on the Samba server (and don't know
> what's in smb.conf - probably "security = user") because I'm in a
> big institution and do not have access to it, and don't think the
> administrators would like the idea of fudging with a working system.

Set the env. variable CYGWIN to contain 'nosmbntsec'.

Corinna

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