Greetings, Henry S. Thompson! > I've spent the last hour trying to find the answer to this on the > Web/in the archives, sorry if it's an FAQ:
> What's the least 'open' way possible using chgrp and chmod g+r to > allow my IIS server to 'see' files on my local disk? At the moment I > have found only three ways to let IIS see a file at all: > 1) chmod o+r; > 2) Use Windows folder security manipulations to give 'user' IUSR read > access. > 3) chgrp Users ... > (1) and (3) are pretty 'open', and I'd rather avoid the lengthy > Windows UI exercise required for (2) if possible. . . > Any suggestions? Only one: If you intend to mix Cygwin tools with native Windows environment, let Windows handle filesystem permissions. Or you will never stop running into these issues over and over again. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 03.12.2012, <05:35> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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