Re: problem with mkgroup -d DOMAIN

2004-01-22 Thread Stefan Zachow
Hi Pierre, thanks first for looking at my problem! Regarding the CreateFileMapping problem, the message you report is *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 0. Terminating. but the code in Cygwin is api_fatal (CreateFileMapping %s, %E. Terminating., mapname); The *** in front is added

Re: running the latest cygwin on a windows 2003 server

2004-01-22 Thread Stefan Zachow
Dave Korn wrote: another question to this topic came into my mind: why is this all happening only to the Windows Server 2003 machine? Ah, but then you go and point out that... Although the SAMBA problem appears on all machines. That's true. It seems that I have two problems here and the

Re: running the latest cygwin on a windows 2003 server

2004-01-22 Thread Stefan Zachow
Thanks a lot to all who helped me. In case one encounters this problem the web-site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncode/html/secure06122003.asp gives an answer. Creating Various Global Objects May Fail: Starting with Windows Server 2003, the creation of

Re: problem with mkgroup -d DOMAIN

2004-01-22 Thread Stefan Zachow
Thank you all for your help! the 'global object privilege' was the reason for cygwin not running on the Win2003 Server. As a matter of fact. The original question started in another thread first and moved to this one due to two seperate problems. Do they have the create global object privilege?

Re: problem with mkgroup -d DOMAIN

2004-01-22 Thread Stefan Zachow
Sorry Pierre, I replied to your personal address only, but it was bouncing back. uname -r says 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) when I have cygwin installed and update via setup, what I definitely did, why do I have an older version than expected? I thought it must be the latest version that I have. Stefan

Re: problem with mkgroup -d DOMAIN

2004-01-22 Thread Stefan Zachow
Now I have version 1.5.6(0.108/3/2). When was this one released? Shall I revert the privilege stuff to test again? Stefan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: version 1.5.6 enhancement

2004-01-22 Thread Stefan Zachow
, 2004 at 03:55:44PM +0100, Stefan Zachow wrote: Now I have version 1.5.6(0.108/3/2). When was this one released? Shall I revert the privilege stuff to test again? Yes please. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: running the latest cygwin on a windows 2003 server

2004-01-21 Thread Stefan Zachow
Good morning, How about when you start bash from a command prompt (i.e., open an MS DOS prompt window, cd c:\cygwin\bin, and .\bash.exe --login -i) as a non-administrative user? What if you omit --login? when I enter .\bash.exe --login -i (with or without --login) I get *** CreateFileMapping,

Re: running the latest cygwin on a windows 2003 server

2004-01-21 Thread Stefan Zachow
Further info... 'mkgroup' is strange. It seems that I cannot synchronize with our network databases. A mkgroup -u -d DOMAIN gives the following two lines of output: LookupAccountName (\\Host, Domain Admins) failed with error 1332 LookupAccountName (\\Host, Domain Users) failed with error 1332

problem with mkgroup -d DOMAIN

2004-01-21 Thread Stefan Zachow
Dear cygwin experts, I encountered some problems with the mkgroup command during my trial to get cygwin running on a Windows 2003 server machine (Topic: running the latest cygwin on a windows 2003 server) The domain controller is a Linux system running Samba for file system sharing. The 'mkpasswd

Re: running the latest cygwin on a windows 2003 server

2004-01-21 Thread Stefan Zachow
Dave Korn wrote: Try giving your cygwin non-admin user accounts the Create paging files privilege and see if that helps. I _think_ you have to do that using the group policy editor, gpedit.msc. OK, I did - unfortunately without any change. How is this Windows information mapped to cygwin, resp.

Re: problem with mkgroup -d DOMAIN

2004-01-21 Thread Stefan Zachow
Dear Corinna, although I won't get the group information, it must be possible to create one manually. What is the typical syntax of the group info returned by mkgroup -d DOMAIN? I could try adding that stuff since I cannot persuade our domain controller to answer correctly. Setting up a new Samba

Re: problem with mkgroup -d DOMAIN

2004-01-21 Thread Stefan Zachow
Sorry, I forgot to ask: what are the default permissions and user/group combinations after cygwin install? I have administrator/mkpasswd with access code 750 over the entire cygwin tree. Should I simply change the group to somethin like 'Users'? Stefan -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: running the latest cygwin on a windows 2003 server

2004-01-21 Thread Stefan Zachow
another question to this topic came into my mind: why is this all happening only to the Windows Server 2003 machine? The same installation with the same configuration runs well with Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Although the SAMBA problem appears on all machines. It must have something to do with

help: running the latest cygwin on a windows 2003 server

2004-01-20 Thread Stefan Zachow
Dear cygwin experts, I went through the mailing list archive searching for windows 2003 server but the resulting 10 pages didn't really help. Could anybody please provide a hint to my problem running cygwin on a Windows 2003 server? I can only start a cygnus shell when I am a member of the

Re: running the latest cygwin on a windows 2003 server

2004-01-20 Thread Stefan Zachow
Larry, Also, who did you install Cygwin as and did you install it for All users or Just me? The answer to the last part may provide you with the answer you seek. Otherwise, please provide more specific information as requested above. I did install cygwin as Administrator for 'all users'. Since

Re: running the latest cygwin on a windows 2003 server

2004-01-20 Thread Stefan Zachow
Igor, What is the exact message you get when you try to run Cygwin programs as another user? Which exact programs fail? Do all the programs fail in the same way? Unfortunetly users that are not in the administrator group cannot even start a bash. That's why I took an Administrative user to