On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Yuval Kogman wrote: > Howdy! > > We have some windows machines running Cygwin to which we'd like to > connect via rsh. > > It all works well if the passwd entry's home field points to a local > directory, and the .rhosts file in that directory contains the proper > values. > > The accounts are hosted on a linux based file server. The unixes get the > home directory via NFS, and the fileserver also shares via samba. > > If you set the home to //fileserver/share in the cygwin box's > /etc/passwd, then .rhosts suddenly stops being valid, and you're asked > for a password. What's funny is that if you put the right password in, > then a shell is started, and the pwd is the share, and the files therein > are available, including .rhosts. > > So basically: > > 1. does anybody know why rlogind doesn't like SMB shares?
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SWITCH>, or see /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README > 2. does anybody know where rlogind logs it's complaints to? Should be in /var/log/inetd.log or the Windows Event Log (Application). > 3. while we're added, how do you get rlogind to be promiscuous? Or > actually, what's the cygwin equivelent of /etc/pam.d/rlogind ? If by "promiscuous" you mean "persistent", go to the Service Control Manager and set Startup Type for the "inetd" service to "Automatic". Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
