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Re: Fw: Using cron with network share


On Jun 22 10:37, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" 
> To: cygwin
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 22:06
> 
> 
> | On 6/21/2010 2:08 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote:
> | > ** apologies about the bad formatting in the earlier reply **
> | >
> | > Well, I apologize for being dense, but I'm not getting it. I read the
> | > document you link to quite a few times before posting my query.
> | 
> | OK, I didn't know that.
> | 
> | > I initially tried running the service under my own account (as
> | > suggested in the faq) with my username&  password entered at prompts
> | > from cron-config. No luck. Then I added the mount point to the system
> | > fstab and tried again. No luck. Then I changed cron to run as system
> | > rather than user, just to see. Still no luck. I also tried adding my
> | > username&  password to the registry using passwd -R.
> | 
> | How about skipping the drive altogether and directly mounting the UNC
> | path?  If that's not working for you, perhaps you want to try just
> | doing the simple "net use" syntax to try to flush out the specifics of
> | your problem.  Again, I'd recommend using UNC paths rather than dealing
> | with possible conflicts of network drives (using the same drive
> | designation as two different users or in two different contexts can result
> | in access problems for the second "use").
> | 
> 
> I agree with Larry. The mount in fstab is  S:\SFCore /sfcore
> but S: may not me mapped when running as a service.
> Use a UNC path in fstab and run the cron daemon as yourself.

Using setuid method 3 instead might work as well:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd3


Corinna

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