Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: how to set up a "mounter" service? (network drives disconnecting) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:46:41 -0800 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <1080744961 DOT 1411 DOT 11501 DOT camel AT gv-rduran DOT dalair DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.9.207.201 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) In-Reply-To: <1080744961.1411.11501.camel@gv-rduran.dalair.com> Richard Duran wrote: > We've set up a cygrunsrv "mounter" service that maps network drives to > Samba shares. Are you sure? Because it seems like this mounter mounts Samba shares to drive letters... > We needed to do this to implement other cygrunsrv services that run > from scripts sitting on these shares. The main problem is that > throughout the day, connectivity to these shares is lost, and when I > try to access these shares from Explorer, I'll see the following error > message: > > [DRIVE]:\ is not accessible. > The referenced account is currently locked out and may not be logged > on to. > > I'll check the account on the PDC only to find that it isn't locked Have you reported this problem to Microsoft? > After a while, the maps will reconnect/reestablish/refresh/whatever. > > Any one else seen this behavior? Not much that Cygwin will be able to do if the problem is inherently in Windows to start with. > Also, this might be related, but Explorer alwas identifies these > mounted drives as "network drive" instead of " on 'server'". > FYI, we have the "mounter" service Login account set to the same > domain account that we've set up for autologin. Ditch the drive letters and just use UNCs (forward slashed UNCs, e.g. //server/share/path/file). No need to use up drive letters either... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/