Why can't root (administrator) see my net uses??

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

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
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