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Re: More problems with cron


The SYSTEM user does not have access to network drives. You might try giving it *all* NT rights, but that could be dangerous. And even then it might not be able to access the drives for some reason that I am unaware of the mechanics of but is unsurmountable. You won't be able to write directly to network drives as the SYSTEM user, you won't be able to rsh to other machines as the SYSTEM user either if network drives are involved. The SYSTEM user just won't do network drives. You can try creating a domain user that has rights equivalent to SYSTEM (read the openssh_x-x-x.README and in the NTSEC/mkpasswd notes in the cygwin FAQ), but this could be dangerous.

I don't know about the CYGWIN variable not being set- is it a system variable, or a user variable? But I don't think it "prevents" SYSTEM from accessing network drives, that is a known NT limitation.

HTH,
Peter

Noel Yap wrote:


I'm still having problems with cron jobs accessing
other machines. I've tried writing directly to
network drives, rsh'ing to the other machine, and
making the SYSTEM user part of the Administrator
group, but nothing I've tried works.

My CYGWIN env var is set to "binmode export ntsec tty"
but when I do "echo $CYGWIN" from bash, it's not set. Could this have something to do with it?

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Noel

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