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Re: Need help: cron jobs can't access mounted network drives

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:55:18PM -0400, Rich Elberger wrote:

it's Universal Naming Convention (heh heh funny) ... \\server\share notation.

Think of using forward slashes when giving an UNC path to a Cygwin application: //server/share/...

Yeah, otherwise \\server\share in cmd.exe needs to become \\\\server\\share in bash!

(Backslashes as path component separators should be outlawed!)



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