On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:17:13PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Wayne Porter wrote:
> > My system is joined to a domain and is connected to multiple servers via
> > mapped network shares in Windows. All of the windows servers allow read/write
> > access to all files, but the Fedora servers all open with read-only access.
> > I can still write to most files in vim by specifying :w! so it's not like
> > I can't do anything, it just becomes an inconvenience.
> > 	d---r-x---+ 1 NT SERVICE+TrustedInstaller NT SERVICE+TrustedInstaller 0 Sep 26 08:50 c
> > 	drwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators              Domain Users                0 Sep 14 11:57 i
> > 	drwxrwx---+ 1 SYSTEM                      SYSTEM                      0 Sep 26 12:55 j
> > 	drwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators              Domain Users                0 Sep 27 07:55 m
> > 	drwxr-xr-x  1 root                        ieng6_root                  0 Jul 12 04:04 v
> > 	drwxrwxr-x  1 Unknown+User                Unix_Group+505              0 Sep 21 09:41 w
> > 	drwxrwxr-x  1 Unix_User+99                Unix_Group+101              0 Sep 21 15:20 y
> > 
> 
> > 
> > Can anything tell me what I might be missing?
> ---
> Does the linux server, where cygdrive "w" is located have the share/files owned
> by a domain group?  I.e. On any system (win or lin) you can have domain accounts and
> local accounts.  In order to share files with the rest of the domain, files
> on the server for drive 'w' have to be owned by a domain account.  It looks
> like
> the files are owned by a linux-local account.
> 
> 
The server that the W: drive is mapped on is not using domain accounts. As far as I know,
all Linux servers we have are running local accounts. Is there something I can set in
my local /etc/passwd to convince Cygwin to map it to my user account?