Re: 23.0.60; uid problems on w32

[Razi Shaban]

If this tab is not apparent, you need to go to Folder Options and
disable "Simple File Sharing."

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Razi


On 3/31/08, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
>  > Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>  >> One reason to do this change however might be that it concerns
>  >> security things (file owner). But I am not sure it actually matters.
>  >
>  > Windows does not have a concept of file ownership. It has access control
>  > lists for files on NTFS drives, but they do not distinguish between the
>  > owner or creator of a file and other users who may have access to the
>  > file. That is why Emacs considers all files to be owned by the current
>  > user. Cygwin has some mapping of ACLs to posix ownership, but that is
>  > more for bidirectional use by Cygwin to retain its own idea of posix
>  > ownership. Files created outside Cygwin may end up with some arbritrary
>  > default similar to what Emacs does (I haven't studied the Cygwin code,
>  > so I don't know the exact details of what they do).
>
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>  Are you sure windows does not have file ownership? If you look at the
>  properties for a file, click on the "Security" tab and then then
>  "Advanced" there is a tab saying owner.
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