cron and network drives

[Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>]

I have a situation here. Now I know that cron can have problems with 
network drives. As I understand it cron runs as SYSTEM and switches 
users to the user whose crontab is being "run". As such it's a 
passwordless "login" and I am told that with passwordless logins Windows 
security restricts access to things like network mapped drives.

This can be shown by the following cronjob:

00 12 * * * net use > /tmp/netuse

Which results in:

New connections will be remembered.

Status       Local     Remote                    Network
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            M:        \\view                    ClearCase Dynamic Views
Unavailable  T:        \\sons-cc\Tools           Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.

Note the Unavailable for the T drive. This was produced on a system with 
Cygwin 1.3.22 installed, cron 3.0.1-10.

However, and this is the part that gets me, on another system running 
Cygwin 1.3.20, cron 3.0.1-7 the same cronjob produces:

New connections will be remembered.

Status       Local     Remote                    Network
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            M:        \\view                    ClearCase Dynamic Views
OK           T:        \\sons-clearcase\Tools    Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.

Note the OK for the T drive. I need to have access to the T drive. Why 
can I access it through cron on one system and not the other?



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