RE: Mapping of Windows Domains?

["Ken Turner" <kjt at cs dot stir dot ac dot uk>]

| > It turns out that these files are being served up with a fake domain name
| > "D1" (because our Unix server isn't part of a Windows domain). When I log
| > in I am authenticated against a real domain "D2". As a result, "D2\kjt"
| > cannot access files whose permissions are set for "D1\kjt". There doesn't
| > seem to be any way of influencing the choice of fake domain name "D1", so
| > I need a client-side solution.
| > 
| > Is there any way to get CygWin or Windows to map domains (e.g. to treat
| > "D1" as equivalent to "D2")? Thanks!
| 
|   Think about what you're asking for.
| 
|   You want to change something at the client end, so that, without doing
| anything at the server end, somebody who isn't a member of a domain could
| get access to files as if they were a domain member.
| 
|   If you could pretend to be a user in a domain you're not a member of, why
| not go the whole hippo and ask to be root in the domain you're not a member
| of (by making yourself root of your own domain that you can control)?
| 
|   If anything remotely like that was even possible, security would simply
| not exist, wouldn't it?  You'd basically be letting anyone anywhere on the
| internet have full and free access to any file on any server anywhere in the
| worlds without having permissions or passwords.
| 
|   So, no, you can't do it.  And if you could, you'd be horrified to realise
| that everyone else in the world (D4\kjt, D5\kjt, .... Danything\kjt) could
| get their hands on your files just by changing their username to kjt.

Many thanks for the clarification. If that's the consequence of what I asked,
then I agree it's not viable.

The fact remains that I'm stuck with a 2.5 year old version of CygWin. I've
described the problem in two posts, but haven't managed to find a solution.
Since the above is evidently a non-starter, have you any idea how to get round
this problem? Alternatively, what changed in this area with CygWin 1.5.18-2?
Thanks for your time.


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