Re: Need help: cron jobs can't access mounted network drives

2003-08-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:55:18PM -0400, Rich Elberger wrote: it's Universal Naming Convention (heh heh funny) ... \\server\share notation. Think of using forward slashes when giving an UNC path to a Cygwin application: //server/share/... Yeah, otherwise \\server\share

Re: Need help: cron jobs can't access mounted network drives

2003-08-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:55:18PM -0400, Rich Elberger wrote: > it's Universal Naming Convention (heh heh funny) ... \\server\share > notation. Think of using forward slashes when giving an UNC path to a Cygwin application: //server/share/... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please

Re: Need help: cron jobs can't access mounted network drives

2003-08-28 Thread Rich Elberger
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

Re: Need help: cron jobs can't access mounted network drives

2003-08-28 Thread Louis-Luc Le Guerrier
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. Wi

Re: Need help: cron jobs can't access mounted network drives

2003-08-28 Thread Rich Elberger
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

Need help: cron jobs can't access mounted network drives

2003-08-28 Thread Louis-Luc Le Guerrier
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 refu