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Have you tried?: Explorer / Right click dir or drive / Properties / 
Security / <edit_appropriate_user_appropriately> /...? I've just spent 
two weeks fighting through similar problems with Vista that I never had 
with XP. I'm not sure whether the problem was Vista or the config the 
vendor put on the system disk!?

Jerome Fong wrote:
> I'm get the mkpasswd error now even though I wasn't getting it before. 
> I've tried this on several machines now running both XP and Vista 
> without much luck.  Therefore it doesn't appear to be a OS problem.
>
> I saw the previous thread that said:
>
> "Nothing Cygwin can do anything about.  The access denied error came
> directly from the Windows system call NetUserEnum.  The culprit is on
> the server side which returns the user records."
>
> However, I didn't see what I need to change on the Windows system side 
> to fix this problem.  My System Admin is willing to make changes, but 
> we need to know what needs to change?  Does anyone have any idea?
>
> thanks,
>
> Jerome
>
>
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