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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:36:11 -0700
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: crontab (Attn: FAQ maintainer)
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On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> 
> > On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > >
> > > > The answer is in the link that Igor gave you.  This FAQ perhaps should
> > > > be split up into two questions, or at least be made more clear that
> > > > there are two problems being addressed in the answer.
> > >
> > > FWIW, I second this suggestion.  Joshua, can we have two questions: "Why
> > > don't Cygwin services work?" and "Why can't Cygwin services access network
> > > shares?" instead of the combined one?
> >
> > Now that it's in DocBook, it would be a pleasure. :)
> >
> > > > The first part about user/system mounts is not your problem.  Read the
> > > > second part of the answer, and read the 'ntsec' part of the manual for
> > > > the full explanation.
> > > ---------------
> > > > When cron runs your job, it is running as SYSTEM impersonating the user
> > > > account that owns the crontab.  During impersonation, the user's
> > > > password is not available and so non-public network shares are not
> > > > available.
> > > ---------------
> > > Now, the marked part above, IMO, looks good enough to put almost verbatim
> > > into the second question.  Opinions?
> >
> > Sure. I'll probably leave in the link to using-ntsec.html
> 
> Yes, that's what I meant, in addition to what's already there about ntsec
> (basically everything after the code section).

All done:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.shares

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