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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:55:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Rich Elberger <elbergr AT smarts DOT com>
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To:	Louis-Luc Le Guerrier <leguerri AT IRO DOT UMontreal DOT CA>
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Subject:	Re: Need help: cron jobs can't access mounted network drives
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it's Universal Naming Convention (heh heh funny) ... \\server\share
notation.

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Louis-Luc Le Guerrier wrote:

>
> Thanks for the tip. I'm having a look right now...
> But what does UNC stand for?
>
> Luc
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Rich Elberger wrote:
>
> > This is a windows problem.  Similar tell-tale issue is well explained
> > here:
> > http://www.denicomp.com/faq.htm#Q21
> >
> > It all has to do with login session issues.  Win2k terminal services
> > somewhat solved this problem with allowing more than one user to access
> > the same mapped drive, but it was essentially a hack.
> >
> > Best thing to do in this case is use UNC if possible.
> >
> > -- rich
> >
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Louis-Luc Le Guerrier wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm using Cygwin on a Windows 2000 Server box. I mount some network
> > > drives from other Windows machines's shared directories, and the
> > > problem is cron jobs can't access these drives.
> > >
> > > A given script will access mounted net drives as /cygwin/f/ when
> > > manually invoked, but that SAME script will refuse to access the
> > > same drives when triggered by a cron job.
> > >
> > > If I type 'net use' before the cron starts, the status of the network
> > > drives is "OK", but if I repeat 'net use' after the cron has triggered the
> > > script with failure to access network drives, I then get "Disconnected"
> > > as status. However, I'm still able to manually go in /cygwin/f/ and
> > > list files, even though the status has become "Disconnected".
> > >
> > > Anyone knows how to fix this problem?
> > > I want to back up these network drives on tape with tar scheduled by
> > > cron.
> > >
> > > TIA.
> > > Luc
> > >
> > >
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