Shared home dir, samba, and workgroups

Marco Atzeri marco_atzeri@yahoo.it
Tue Mar 9 06:17:00 GMT 2010


--- Mar 9/3/10, Wes Barris ha scritto:

> Wes Barris wrote:
> > I use Cygwin 1.7 on my XP desktop system at
> work.  I like having the
> > same home directory on this Windows XP system as I do
> on our Unix
> > server.  The Windows XP system is a member of a
> domain.  The Unix
> > server is not.  The Unix server is running Samba
> and is configured
> > with a workgroup name.  My home directory on the
> Unix server is
> > mounted as a mapped network drive on the Windows XP
> system.
> > 
> > Everything in the above setup is working
> > properly from the Unix server side and from the
> Windows side when
> > working with Windows Explorer.  I can create and
> delete files via
> > Windows Explorer and they show up on the Unix side
> with proper
> > ownership and permissions (as controlled by
> Samba).  Conversely,
> > I can create and delete files under Unix and access
> these files
> > from Windows Explorer.
> > 
> > The problem is when I look at my mapped network home
> directory
> > with Cygwin, my home directory files are owned by
> nobody ('????????')
> > and have a group of nobody.  I am guessing that
> this is because my
> > Windows SID in /etc/passwd is the SID of my domain
> user and since
> > the Samba server is not part of this domain the files
> look like they
> > are from an unknown user.
> > 
> > In our Samba server there is a file (usermap) that
> maps unix usernames
> > to windows usernames.  This appears to be working
> when working with
> > Windows Explorer.  Why doesn't this work with
> Cygwin?  What is the
> > way to fix this?  Do I somehow need to map my
> unix username to a
> > windows SID?  Do I need to turn off ntsec? 

you need to map the WINDOWS SID to the UNIX username

so you need to add on /etc/passwd and etc/group
the right references.

see:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

> Do I need to change
> > the mount options for /cygdrive?
> 
> Should I assume from the lack of any response that there is
> no fix
> for this?
> 
> -- Wes Barris

I should say no
Marco






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