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23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive)

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From: jari <jari.aalto <at> cante.net>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 10257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10257: 23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:47:06 +0200

On 2011-12-14 09:19, Ken Brown wrote:
| >>As I understand it, this is a filesystem problem: Samba returns a
| >>fake SID to Windows, so Cygwin can't determine the correct uid/gid.
| >
| >Either that, or make euidaccess/check_writable return success in such
| >cases.
| 
| (...) /etc/passwd and /etc/group to work around this.  [He has to map the
| fake SID returned by Samba to a real one.]  If he doesn't want to do
| that (..)

I'm unable to get those values configured properly. I've rechecked
Corrinna's Cygwin-ML examples and compared them to my tries over and
over, and it still shows ???? for the UID part. GID succeed.

Jari

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