Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive

Wed Sep 8 22:46:00 GMT 2010

On 9/8/2010 6:17 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> I have a CIFS drive I connect to as the windows user.  I can write to the
> drive with no problem. However, when I go to delete files from the drive,
> Cygwin behaves very oddly.

<snip>

> $ ls -l
> total 104
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 1362 2010-09-08 13:31 BUILD_EVO_template

<snip>

I think you need to look at why the user that created the files in the
first place isn't known to Cygwin.  If you can solve that problem, you
may find the rest falls into place.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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