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RE: Cygwin can't write to CIFS... but cmd.exe *can* (more)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Scott Prive <Scott dot Prive at storigen dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:54:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Cygwin can't write to CIFS... but cmd.exe *can* (more)
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Scott,
I've had some trouble with file permissions on samba shares under Win2k.
Not anything as severe as yours, but the files created on a share didn't
inherit the world read permissions of the directories (and those couldn't
be set). I wonder if these are related?
Igor
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Scott Prive wrote:
> ...of course, when I do this (in either example), I have cd'd to the
> CIFS share (/cygdrive/w/ in both cases)
>
> Also, the share is authenticated as a test account other than who I am
> in the shell (shell user=Administrator; CIFS authenticated as user
> 'foo').
>
> I'm wondering if this has anything to do with my problem, but one would
> expect to be able to authenticate CIFS shares as other users (I even
> tried mapping the drive under plain Explorer).
>
> What puzzles me is if I start cmd.exe as a subprocess of bash, the
> writes succeed.
>
> -Scott
>
> > Example:
> > After authentication/mount (via net use), I try `echo "foo"
> > >myfile.txt`
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