Writes to Samba mount, sort-of

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Vidiot wrote:
>>From within a terminal, I run zsh.  I have no trouble, via the command line,
> creating files on a Samba mount, or transferring files to the Samba mount.
> 
> When I try and do the same thing from within a cron job, that starts a zsh
> script, I cannot create or copy files to a Samba mount.
> 
> Can anyone think of a reason why this would be so?


Yes and we even have an FAQ about it.  See:

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.shares>


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