Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Jehan Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Permission denied on a windows share Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:44:28 -0700 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3D3101AC.7050905@bravobrava.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020713194509.02bb9210@pop3.cris.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020713204337.02acf938@pop3.cris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-64-168-83-170.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026621815 4444 64.168.83.170 (14 Jul 2002 04:43:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 04:43:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020708 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Randall R Schulz wrote: > One thing is certain, Cygwin cannot override Windows permissions. If you > can read (or write or remove, etc.) the file from a Cygwin application, > you can read (write, remove) it from a Windows native app. I'm not > certain the reverse is true, however. Obviously it isn't since I can modify a file with Notepad but I can't modify the same file with Cygwin. The question is why. Cygwin seems to check if me (local user jehan) has write access to the file (the answer is no, a local user can't exists on a domain anyway, it's the other me (domain user jehan) that has write access). But why does cygwin check that, why doesn't it leave it to Windows to verify the permissions? > Sorry to equivocate so, but since you seemed a little desperate, I > figured I'd try to help. Not desperate. Frustrated more likely. You see, I'm jongling between a Unix box (where my account is) and Windows. So there are files I share between the two (like the .bashrc, .ssh and the like). And not being able to write to those files can be annoying. Jehan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/