On Jun 22 10:37, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" > To: cygwin > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 22:06 > > > | On 6/21/2010 2:08 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: > | > ** apologies about the bad formatting in the earlier reply ** > | > > | > Well, I apologize for being dense, but I'm not getting it. I read the > | > document you link to quite a few times before posting my query. > | > | OK, I didn't know that. > | > | > I initially tried running the service under my own account (as > | > suggested in the faq) with my username& password entered at prompts > | > from cron-config. No luck. Then I added the mount point to the system > | > fstab and tried again. No luck. Then I changed cron to run as system > | > rather than user, just to see. Still no luck. I also tried adding my > | > username& password to the registry using passwd -R. > | > | How about skipping the drive altogether and directly mounting the UNC > | path? If that's not working for you, perhaps you want to try just > | doing the simple "net use" syntax to try to flush out the specifics of > | your problem. Again, I'd recommend using UNC paths rather than dealing > | with possible conflicts of network drives (using the same drive > | designation as two different users or in two different contexts can result > | in access problems for the second "use"). > | > > I agree with Larry. The mount in fstab is S:\SFCore /sfcore > but S: may not me mapped when running as a service. > Use a UNC path in fstab and run the cron daemon as yourself.
Using setuid method 3 instead might work as well: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd3 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple