cron run task can not see samba mounts.

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>.  Reformatted.

Daksa wrote:
> On 2/18/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin <dot> com> wrote:
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<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Don't feed the spammers.
Thanks.

>> Daksa wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> > As you can see, when I run the command manually from a xcygwin xterm
>> > the script has no issues seeing z: mounted at /mnt/z. No such luck
>> > when the script is run from cron. I notice some subtle differences in
>> > the env but I can't explain why the samba share would not appear from
>> > the cron...
>> >
>>
>> Read the FAQ entry:
>>
>> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.shares>
>>
> Thanks for the link, those pointers eventually lead to me solving this
> nasty issue. The FAQ makes it sound simple to get private shares
> working, but in reality it is not entirely straight forward. Providing
> the password to net use while cron was being run as the SYSTEM user
> did not fix the issue. The share was still listed as unavailable.
> Likewise running cron as my own user did not fix the issue. Getting
> cron to run as my user was not entirely straight forward because as it
> turned out the /etc/passwd entry for my user was incorrect. I had to
> first use mkpasswd to get a valid /etc/passwd entry and then use
> cron-config to get cron to run as my user. Then, even after all of
> this, the share was still returning Unavailable. It wasn't until I
> additionally used net use on top of running cron as my user until I
> cron finally was able to properly see the private share. Is there
> somewhere where a more detailed how-to on this exists or perhaps a
> wiki where I and other users could explain this task in more detail?

Is it fair to ask if you ran cron as yourself with your valid network login
and credentials?

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