Shared home dir, samba, and workgroups

[Wes Barris]

Marco Atzeri wrote:
> --- 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

I've read both of those pages many times.  They don't appear
to apply to my situation.  What mkpasswd option(s) would you
suggest?  --local doesn't help map the Windows SID to the UNIX
username, --domain doesn't do it.

>> 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
> 
> 
> 
>       
> 


-- 
Wes Barris

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