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Re: post b20.1: How to disable umask and access UNC path
- To: igoresha@iwmail.com
- Subject: Re: post b20.1: How to disable umask and access UNC path
- From: Chris Faylor <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:58:42 -0400
- Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <99081613512402.09930@webb1.iname.net>
- Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 01:51:24PM -0400, igoresha@iwmail.com wrote:
> ---- Chris Faylor wrote:
>> If I'm understanding what you're saying correctly, then you've just
>> outlined the solution to the problem -- use "net use" to allocate the
>> remote share to a logical drive. Doesn't cygwin work correctly in
>> that context?
>No: it changes security on remote shares using local account information.
>
>In any case as it seems to me the simplest solution is to have an
>additional option to limit ntsec only to local drives. Otherwise one
>has to impose NFS semantic on something that is quite orthogonal to it.
>And to do it in a reasonable way is hard...
Ah. In that case, Corinna had some insightful comments earlier in the
thread. I won't repeat them.
-chris
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