On 8/26/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > The answer is in the link that Igor gave you. This FAQ perhaps should > > be split up into two questions, or at least be made more clear that > > there are two problems being addressed in the answer. > > FWIW, I second this suggestion. Joshua, can we have two questions: "Why > don't Cygwin services work?" and "Why can't Cygwin services access network > shares?" instead of the combined one?
Now that it's in DocBook, it would be a pleasure. :) > > The first part about user/system mounts is not your problem. Read the > > second part of the answer, and read the 'ntsec' part of the manual for > > the full explanation. > --------------- > > When cron runs your job, it is running as SYSTEM impersonating the user > > account that owns the crontab. During impersonation, the user's > > password is not available and so non-public network shares are not > > available. > --------------- > Now, the marked part above, IMO, looks good enough to put almost verbatim > into the second question. Opinions? Sure. I'll probably leave in the link to using-ntsec.html -- 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/
