>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?
No, since the service path is enclosed in quotes like this:
net use '\\server\servicename' ...
I figured out the backslashes a while back but thanks for the reply.
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