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Re: WinXP upgrade breaks cron mapping
- From: Don Dwiggins <d dot l dot dwiggins at computer dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, djordan at augustmail dot com
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:41:45 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: WinXP upgrade breaks cron mapping
- References: <54360-2200285217436170@M2W089.mail2web.com>
- Reply-to: d dot l dot dwiggins at computer dot org
djordan@augustmail com writes:
> I've just upgraded cygwin to the latest releases. No change in behavior.
> I've also cron'ed just the net use command and captured these error
> messages:
> System error 5 has occurred.
> Access is denied.
> I'd really appreciate any help...
Unfortunately, I can't offer much. I'm running a cron job (under my domain
user account) that successfully does a net use (with my user name and
password) under Win2000.
Just a thought: try scheduling the same or equivalent job under the Windows
Task Scheduler, and see if you get the same behavior -- I'd suspect that you
would, and that it's some kind of security change in Win XP from NT/W2K. If
so, you might have some luck shopping the problem on the appropriate
newsgroup.
> I realize the cron is running under SYSTEM account and that's why I have to
> manually map drives within my cron scripts.
Actually, your script runs under your user ID, but with restricted
permissions vis a vis the network; try doing an "id" in the cron script and
compare the output with what you get from doing it in a bash window.
Good luck,
--
Don Dwiggins "The truth will make you free,
d.l.dwiggins@computer.org but first it will make you miserable"
-- Tom DeMarco
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