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Re: cron: how to access network service/share
- From: Mike Eggleston <mikee at mikee dot ath dot cx>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:16:06 -0500
- Subject: Re: cron: how to access network service/share
- Organization: The Math Forum
- References: <20040610185534.26793.qmail@web52306.mail.yahoo.com>
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Gerry Reno wrote:
> I have a script that logs on to a SMB network service. Something like:
> net use \\server\servicename password /user:xxxx
>
> This script run fine from the users shell environment but I need this
> script to run at a specific time under cron. I have tried several ways
> to get this running under cron. I tried installing cron without
> declaring a specific --user. Cron would run but whenever the script
> was scheduled to run it would generate a System 1312 error when trying
> to logon to the network service. So I added the --user and --passwd
> options to the cygrunsrv --install command. The user has
> admininstrator privileges so I expected that it could access the
> network service (this account can logon to the service in Explorer).
> Cron runs and when my script runs it now generates a System 1069 error
> when trying to logon to the network service. I've read through a whole
> bunch of cron postings today and I've seen that others have encountered
> similar problems also. Has anyone found a solution to this
> predicament?
Do you need to double the \'s?
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