permissions/owners seen on cygwin-client vs. server

[Linda Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>]

I get two different views of my server's "/home" directory
depending on if I'm on the server or under cygwin on a client.

On the server, I see things like:
drwsrwsrwt   2 lin      users       14 Nov 24  2006 NT_Perflogs/
drwxr-s---   2 root     private     24 Jul 26  2006 archive/
drwsr-s---   4 backup   backup      94 May 14 13:53 backup/
drwxr-xr-x   4 lin      devel      103 Jan  6  2007 bench/
drwxr-sr-x   3 lin      devel       16 Jan 27  2007 cygwin/
drwxr-x--x   4 guest    guest      176 May  6  2003 guest/
drwxr-x--- 115 lin      lingrp   12288 Aug 16 16:08 lin/
drwxr-s--x  33 lin      devel     4096 May 19 03:50 linux/
drwxr-x---   5 mailtest nogroup    131 May  6  2003 mailtest/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     root       188 Jul 31 19:21 packages/
drwxr-s---   4 root     samba       36 Jul 28  2005 samba/
drwxr-s--x  20 lin      wheel     4096 Jun  9 17:09 tools/
drwsrws--x   4 wwwrun   wwwrun      29 Jul 20  2006 www/

but locally, I see:
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Nov 24  2006 NT_Perflogs/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Jul 26  2006 archive/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 May 14 13:53 backup/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Jan  6  2007 bench/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Jan 27  2007 cygwin/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 May  6  2003 guest/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Aug 16 16:08 lin/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 May 19 03:50 linux/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 May  6  2003 mailtest/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Jul 31 19:21 packages/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Aug 19  2006 projects/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Jul 28  2005 samba/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Feb 11  2006 src/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Jun  9 17:09 tools/
drwxr-x--- 1 lin Administrators 0 Jul 20  2006 www/
--------
So why such a difference?  Shouldn't I see something other than my own
user & group name?
The permissions seems to function as seen from top(server) view:
//server/home> ll backup
ls: reading directory backup: Permission denied
total 0
//server/home> ll guest
ls: reading directory guest: Permission denied
total 0

I "guess" the permissions, owners and groups I see on files on
when on my client really aren't too reliable or am I missing
something...?

Thanks,
linda




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