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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:40:53 -0400
From: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
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To: Noel Yap <yap_noel AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: More problems with cron
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The SYSTEM user does not have access to network drives. You might try 
giving it *all* NT rights, but that could be dangerous. And even then it 
might not be able to access the drives for some reason that I am unaware 
of the mechanics of but is unsurmountable. You won't be able to write 
directly to network drives as the SYSTEM user, you won't be able to rsh 
to other machines as the SYSTEM user either if network drives are 
involved. The SYSTEM user just won't do network drives. You can try 
creating a domain user that has rights equivalent to SYSTEM (read the 
openssh_x-x-x.README and in the NTSEC/mkpasswd notes in the cygwin FAQ), 
but this could be dangerous.

I don't know about the CYGWIN variable not being set- is it a system 
variable, or a user variable? But I don't think it "prevents" SYSTEM 
from accessing network drives, that is a known NT limitation.

HTH,
Peter

Noel Yap wrote:

> I'm still having problems with cron jobs accessing
> other machines.  I've tried writing directly to
> network drives, rsh'ing to the other machine, and
> making the SYSTEM user part of the Administrator
> group, but nothing I've tried works.
> 
> My CYGWIN env var is set to "binmode export ntsec tty"
> but when I do "echo $CYGWIN" from bash, it's not set. 
> Could this have something to do with it?
> 
> Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Noel
> 
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