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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:00:10 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
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Subject: Re: WinXP upgrade breaks cron mapping
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> I realize the cron is running under SYSTEM account and that's why I have to
> manually map drives within my cron scripts.  Is there any knowledge on the
> differences with XP and NT which might explain why mapping the drives with
> my own NT id would not work as they did prior to upgrading to XP?  I have
> the same permissions on the remote server as I always had.

as far as i know the SYSTEM-Account cannot acces any network drives.

you should perhaps su to your userid - altough this should already be 
done by cron itself (if the cronjobs are not scheduled to run as root).

hope it helps.
   Sven


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