rlogind vs. smb

[Morche Matthias]

cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 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?
> 2. does anybody know where rlogind logs it's complaints to?  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 ?
...

What are the permissions of .rhosts on the shares? rshd/rlogind refuses to use them if anybody but the owner has write access!

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