* cygwinenv.sgml (ntea): Add some wording to scare people away

from using this option.
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2005-09-15 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* cygwinenv.sgml (ntea): Add some wording to scare people away
from using this option.
2005-08-26 Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
* faq-using.xml: Add 'net use' hint to network shares FAQ.

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If supplied, wildcard matching is case insensitive. The default is <literal>noignorecase</literal></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><envar>(no)ntea</envar> - if set, use the full NT Extended
Attributes to store UNIX-like inode information.
This option only operates under Windows NT. Defaults to not set. </para>
<para><envar>(no)ntea</envar> - if set, use NT Extended Attributes to
store UNIX-like inode information.
This option only operates under Windows NT. Defaults to not set.
Only FAT and NTFS support Extended Attributes, not FAT32, so it's
of no use there. Furthermore, on NTFS partitions ntsec, which provides
real permissions, overrides ntea, which only provides faked permissions.
So setting ntea only makes sense if you either have FAT partitions,
or if you switch off ntsec explicitely. </para>
<warning><title>Warning!</title> <para>This may create additional
<emphasis>large</emphasis> files on non-NTFS partitions.</para></warning>
<emphasis>large</emphasis> files on FAT partitions.</para></warning>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><envar>(no)ntsec</envar> - if set, use the NT security
model to set UNIX-like permissions on files and processes. The
file permissions can only be set on NTFS partitions. FAT doesn't
file permissions can only be set on NTFS partitions. FAT/FAT32 don't
support the NT file security. Defaults to set. For more information, read
the documentation in <xref linkend="ntsec"></xref>.</para>
</listitem>