Re: Read-only samba directory appears writable to Cygwin

Peter Fales wrote: We've got a directory which is mounted from a Samba server. The server is sharing the directory as read-only. However under Cygwin access("/path/to/samba/mount/some_file",W_OK) is returning 0, indicating the that file is writable.I assume this is because Cygwin doesn

Read-only samba directory appears writable to Cygwin

We've got a directory which is mounted from a Samba server. The server is sharing the directory as read-only. However under Cygwin access("/path/to/samba/mount/some_file",W_OK) is returning 0, indicating the that file is writable.I assume this is because Cygwin doesn't "know" that