it's Universal Naming Convention (heh heh funny) ... \\server\share notation.
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Louis-Luc Le Guerrier wrote: > > Thanks for the tip. I'm having a look right now... > But what does UNC stand for? > > Luc > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Rich Elberger wrote: > > > This is a windows problem. Similar tell-tale issue is well explained > > here: > > http://www.denicomp.com/faq.htm#Q21 > > > > It all has to do with login session issues. Win2k terminal services > > somewhat solved this problem with allowing more than one user to access > > the same mapped drive, but it was essentially a hack. > > > > Best thing to do in this case is use UNC if possible. > > > > -- rich > > > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Louis-Luc Le Guerrier wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm using Cygwin on a Windows 2000 Server box. I mount some network > > > drives from other Windows machines's shared directories, and the > > > problem is cron jobs can't access these drives. > > > > > > A given script will access mounted net drives as /cygwin/f/ when > > > manually invoked, but that SAME script will refuse to access the > > > same drives when triggered by a cron job. > > > > > > If I type 'net use' before the cron starts, the status of the network > > > drives is "OK", but if I repeat 'net use' after the cron has triggered the > > > script with failure to access network drives, I then get "Disconnected" > > > as status. However, I'm still able to manually go in /cygwin/f/ and > > > list files, even though the status has become "Disconnected". > > > > > > Anyone knows how to fix this problem? > > > I want to back up these network drives on tape with tar scheduled by > > > cron. > > > > > > TIA. > > > Luc > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > > > > > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
