Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Yong Liu" To: Subject: set up cron as self/map disk Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:14:59 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After many trial to set up cron in order to make the job in crontab to access remote mapped drive. I did the following: (my sys is W2K) Make the machine stayed on as me. 1 .In the window Services tab set logon for the cron as Myself on the domain instead of LOCAL SYSTEM. 2. In the /etc/passwd file, after I did mkpasswd -d MYDOMAIN > passwd I delete the line for SYSTEM, and change my gid and uid to 18 18 This will work! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/