Hi everyone! In my network, I've got a samba server running on a linux machine and I would like to get the correct user and group names under Cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.8(0.236/5/3) 2011-03-01 09:36) under Windows 7 (Windows 7 Professional N Ver 6.1 Build 7600).
Eventually, I found a very helpful forum thread (http://omgili.com/mailinglist/cygwin/cygwin/com/001b01ca597832cbb90098632b0 0com.html) which got me onto the right track for the user names. If I understood correctly, 1. samba takes the user (UID) and group (GID) IDs from the machine it is running on and somehow generates a Windows SID from that information. 2. This information is sent to the windows machine, which then interprets (or looks up) the correct user and group names as I can see in the Windows Explorer for the files on my samba drives. 3. Cygwin doesn't seem to have this remote-lookup-mechanism built-in, so the /etc/passwd file has to list the Windows SIDs for every user (for the local machine as well as for the samba machine) and the /etc/group file has to list the Windows SIDs for every group in order for Cygwin (e.g. the ls -l command) to report the correct user/group for each file. The forum thread mentioned earlier suggests to use mkpasswd -U username -S- -L my_samba_box to get the /etc/passwd entries for the specified user(s) from the samba server, which worked for me - that means, the user names reported by ls -l include 'my_samba_box-username' for every file. The group names are still '????????' (GID=4294967295), which suggests that the Windows SID for the group reported by samba is not (yet) understood by Cygwin. So I tried the equivalent command for the groups as suggested by the aforementioned forum thread: mkgroup -U username -S- -L my_samba_box Here, I was out of luck as this command did not return anything. I also tried mkgroup -U username -S- -D my_samba_box but that reported 'mkgroup (102): [1355] The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted'. Any help on how to get the group-SID-mapping from the samba server so I can add that information to my /etc/group file would be highly appreciated. Thanks, Christian -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
