Igor, I suspect the resolution to my problem will be different from yours.
For me, I just wanted shares mounted under Cygwin to behave the same as if I mounted it under Command Prompt. I got this result by disabling ntsec for CIFS shares ("nosmbntsec"). I couldn't provide an answer for your inheriting-permissions issue, sorry. -Scott (Eagerly awaiting someone to write an O'Reily book on Cygwin :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:54 AM > To: Scott Prive > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Cygwin can't write to CIFS... but cmd.exe *can* (more) > > > Scott, > I've had some trouble with file permissions on samba shares > under Win2k. > Not anything as severe as yours, but the files created on a > share didn't > inherit the world read permissions of the directories (and > those couldn't > be set). I wonder if these are related? > Igor > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Scott Prive wrote: > > > ...of course, when I do this (in either example), I have cd'd to the > > CIFS share (/cygdrive/w/ in both cases) > > > > Also, the share is authenticated as a test account other > than who I am > > in the shell (shell user=Administrator; CIFS authenticated as user > > 'foo'). > > > > I'm wondering if this has anything to do with my problem, > but one would > > expect to be able to authenticate CIFS shares as other users (I even > > tried mapping the drive under plain Explorer). > > > > What puzzles me is if I start cmd.exe as a subprocess of bash, the > > writes succeed. > > > > -Scott > > > > > Example: > > > After authentication/mount (via net use), I try `echo "foo" > > > >myfile.txt` > > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular > Science, Oct'02, p.51 > > -- 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/