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Re: Why can't root (administrator) see my net uses??
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: "Mark Paulus" <commpg at yahoo dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:57:35 -0500
- Subject: Re: Why can't root (administrator) see my net uses??
At 03:33 PM 11/20/2001, Mark Paulus wrote:
>I have followed the ntsec guidelines listed in the users guide, and
>have actually managed to transform my administrators account into
>root, and can telnet/rlogin to my box as root.
>
>However, there seems to be one small caveat. When I login as root,
>I can not see any of my uses created under my default userid.
>
>e.g. My regular/default userid is Mark.
>as Mark, I do a net use to my samba server
>'net use j: \\fileserv\smbapps'
>
>Now, I run cygwin (as Mark), and telnet back into my box
>to login as root. That all works fine, except, now when I do
>a net use, I see no uses, and I can't do a 'net use j: \\fileserv\smbapps'
>because somewhere I don't have permissions. This seems to be a
>sticky area within cygwin/windows. Any pointers??
Yes, the email archives. It's been discussed there before and you
can find all the details of the discussion there.
Why not just use UNC paths and avoid the problem?
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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