How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

[Wes Barris]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 03/03/2010 00:34, Wes Barris wrote:
> 
>> My W: drive is a mapped network drive.  However, it is mapped to a
>> share coming from the same physical computer.  This drive contains
>> all of my data including a folder that I wish to use as my home
>> directory (W: is mapped to //mycomputer/share/home).
> 
>   Just to check the obvious: is it mapped with the default (i.e., read-only!)
> permissions, or did you open it up?

When I enabled sharing on that drive I checked the box that would
allow network users to modify the files.

>> The contents of this drive was copied from my previous computer
>> on which I used the same username.
> 
>   Argh.  Ouch.  That's probably part of the problem.  Using the same username
> on a different computer does *not* give your user account the same identity,
> when we're talking about local machine accounts rather than domain/workgroup
> accounts.
> 
>   How *exactly* did you copy "the contents of this drive" across?

I put the two drives into the same computer and used Windows to
copy the contents from one drive to the other.  This was done
in the new computer.  I have also re-installed Windows on the
new computer.  Does re-installing Windows change the machine
portion of the SID or is the SID tied to hardware?

>     cheers,
>       DaveK
> 
> 
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