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From: Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=27Sven_K=F6hler=27?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>,
   djordan AT augustmail DOT com
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: WinXP upgrade breaks cron mapping
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:34:39 +0100 
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maybe the smb client would be useful here ?
http://main.mswinxp.net/~lpackham/smbclient/

-----Original Message-----
From: Sven Köhler [mailto:skoehler AT upb DOT de]
Sent: 02 August 2002 15:00
To: djordan AT augustmail DOT com
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: WinXP upgrade breaks cron mapping


> 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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