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Re: 1.3.22 -> 1.5.10: chmod behavior change
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: jos at catnook dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 16:06:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: 1.3.22 -> 1.5.10: chmod behavior change
- References: <20040528192536.GA89120@lizzy.catnook.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 03:25 PM 5/28/2004, you wrote:
>Please consider the following. /z is a CIFS (NetApp) share.
>
>1.3.22:
>
>~> cd /z
>
>/z> rm -f x
>
>/z> touch x
>
>/z> ls -l x
>-rw-r--r-- 1 josb mkpasswd 0 May 28 12:16 x
>
>/z> chmod -w x
>
>/z> ls -l x
>-r--r--r-- 1 josb mkpasswd 0 May 28 12:16 x
>
>1.5.10:
>
>~> cd /z
>
>/z> rm -f x
>
>/z> touch x
>
>/z> ls -l x
>-rw-r--r-- 1 josb mkpasswd 0 May 28 12:18 x
>
>/z> chmod -w x
>chmod: changing permissions of `x': Permission denied
>
>/z> ls -l x
>-rw-r--r-- 1 josb mkpasswd 0 May 28 12:18 x
>
>/z>
>
>It seems that chmod no longer works on network shares. How do I make it work
>again? Your help is appreciated.
Please follow the guidelines outlined here for reporting problems:
>Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Without the benefit of the above, I'm forced to ask whether you set
"smbntsec" in your Cygwin environment variable?
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