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Re: Fw: Using cron with network share


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 seem to be missing some elementary step to mount network shares, but
I haven't found it anywhere in a week's worth of googling. Any further
hints would be appreciated.

I notice you're still running cygwin 1.7.3. The current is 1.7.5. I seem to recall that there were some issues involving cron and 1.7.3. So you might have better luck if you upgrade.

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