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 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:08:34 +0100 Message-ID: <6322-Mon15Jul2002110834+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jehan Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Permission denied on a windows share Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin In-Reply-To: <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> <3D3101AC.7050905@bravobrava.com> On Saturday 13 Jul 02, Jehan writes: > 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. I believe that windows will automatically attempt to "authenticate" as the domain user using your existing username/password. Apparently, Cygwin doesn't do this. Regards, David -- 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/