On Apr 16 11:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 16 11:13, Fr?d?ric Bron wrote: > > > Is UAC enabled? Elevated or non-elevated shell? > > Access control via Active Directory. No idea about elevation (do not > > know that). I am listed in the administrator group of the main machine > > I use (corporate PC). > > Ok, so you're admin. I assume that `id' lists the administrators > group in your supplementary group list? > > > > Which OS are you using, btw? > > Windows XP SP3 > > Ok, so no UAC. > > > I identified one file that was permanently failing to be saved had the > > following permissions on my hard drive: > > - Administraors: full control > > - Domain Users: Read&Execute, Read > > - MySelf: Modify, Read&Execute, Read, Write > > - SYSTEM: full control > > - Everyone: Read&Execute, Read > > - Users (computer\Users): Read&Execute, Read > > > > I added full control to my-self on the local hard drive and then rsync > > worked fine. On the USB disk the remaining ".file.exe.XXXX" has full > > control to everyone and only this which is fine. > > I then removed again the full control to my-self on the local hard > > drive and rsync failed again. > > > > Any clue? > > Not really. So, with the above permissions, rsync fails but mv works, > right? What's important when using mv is to mv the file within the > same filesystem. Rsync does not fail to copy the file to the USB > stick. It fails when trying to rename the copied file on the USB stick > from its temporary name (.file.foo) to the desired target name. This > renaming is what we have to check for. So, what das mv say when you > try to just rename the file? What if you cp the file to the USB stick > and then try to mv it to another name there? > > Can you please create an strace rsyncing just this single file with > the failing permissions?
And please add the output of `cacls the_file'. It's more exact to show the ACL than the GUI. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
