Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:16:06 -0500 From: Mike Eggleston To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cron: how to access network service/share Message-ID: <20040610191606.GC10309@mikee.ath.cx> References: <20040610185534.26793.qmail@web52306.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040610185534.26793.qmail@web52306.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The Math Forum X-IsSubscribed: yes On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Gerry Reno wrote: > I have a script that logs on to a SMB network service. Something like: > net use \\server\servicename password /user:xxxx > > This script run fine from the users shell environment but I need this > script to run at a specific time under cron. I have tried several ways > to get this running under cron. I tried installing cron without > declaring a specific --user. Cron would run but whenever the script > was scheduled to run it would generate a System 1312 error when trying > to logon to the network service. So I added the --user and --passwd > options to the cygrunsrv --install command. The user has > admininstrator privileges so I expected that it could access the > network service (this account can logon to the service in Explorer). > Cron runs and when my script runs it now generates a System 1069 error > when trying to logon to the network service. I've read through a whole > bunch of cron postings today and I've seen that others have encountered > similar problems also. Has anyone found a solution to this > predicament? Do you need to double the \'s? -- 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/