problem with cron and network shares

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 12:08 PM 8/23/2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 12:00 PM 8/23/2001, Cioffari, Joseph wrote:
> >Hi, 
> >
> >I am currently able to execute the following command at the command line in
> >cygwin with no problem:
> >
> >$cp /home/Administrator/test.doc J:/docs/sfrank   (Copies the file from my
> >local cygwin home directory to a mapped network share)
> >
> >However, when I put this (or any cp/ftp/mv command that involves a network
> >share) in my crontab it spits back an error saying "Permission Denied" when
> >trying to copy the file over to the mapped network share.  It seems that
> >cron will only copy files to my local machine directories but not network
> >shares.
> >
> >Just wondering why it works if I manually perform the operation but doesn't
> >work ("Permission Denied") when I run it through cron.  I've also tried
> >removing the file first just to make sure it wasn't copying over itself.
> >
> >Any ideas?
>
>
>Does the user that cron run as have access to these shares?

                          ^^^^
                          runs

>Possible (easy) solution:  Use UNC paths instead.
>
>
>
>Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
>RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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