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 X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVaqVmQR2zNlM+WJUVg9Je1ZF65BDlbM19FBYdrZE5fsjiK1TOanxMMI Message-ID: <3F41211D.5080306@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:55:25 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cron and network drives References: <3F3D500B DOT 2030305 AT cygwin DOT com> <20030818181955 DOT GA22397 AT emcb DOT co DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <20030818181955.GA22397@emcb.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Elfyn McBratney wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >>Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >> >>>Larry Hall wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hard to say exactly with the information given. My WAG is that the >>>>user from whom you're running the cron job for is logged in and >>>>authenticated by Windows on the second machine when cron runs but not >>>>on the first machine. >>> >>>Only one user is in use on both machines. In fact I accessed both >>>machines using remote desktop logged in as that user. The crontab is >>>that same user, etc. >>> >>> >>>>This is assuming the share is not public, which would mean you have a >>>>completely different (network) problem on the first machine. >>> >>>Could you please describe exactly what is a "public" share, what is >>>not a public share (I assume that would be a private share) and how >>>does one tell the difference? Also, assuming that in the case that >>>works it works because it's a public share and in the case that >>>doesn't work it fails because it's a private share then how do I go >>>about changing the private share to a public share? >> >>I really wish that somebody would address this issue once and for all. I >>often here such things as a "public mount" but to date nobody has >>ventured a guess as to what a "public mount" would be and how it would >>differ from a "non public mount". I think I have a situation here that >>clearly shows that something is odd whereas on one machine a mounted >>drive is available via cron and on another machine it is not. Both >>machines are setup nearly identically with the same user (in the same >>domain though geographically separated by thousands of miles). The only >>difference I see is that the versions of Cygwin and cron are different. > > > I think Larry is actually speaking shares here, not mounts. Quite right. I don't know where Andrew got "public mount". The text he quoted from my response to his original inquiry uses "public share", not "public mount". A "public share" is a 'Windows thing'. It isn't a 'Cygwin thing'. It's a share that allows unprivileged/unauthenticated users access. Setting it up simply means adding users of this type (i.e. 'Guest') to the share's permission list. I don't know if this explains Andrew's situation or not. I'm still a bit mystified though why he's so hung up on this "public share" issue. I thought it was put to bed the last time he asked in this thread: If none of this resolves the issue though, Elfyn's suggestion of comparing the output of cygcheck for the two machines is a good one. Or his general thoughts on debugging of cron is also worthwhile. Otherwise, I guess the only other option is to fire up the debugger and see what's going on. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/