Re: problem with cron and network shares

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 12:00 PM 8/23/2001, Cioffari, Joseph wrote:
>Hi, 
>
>I am currently able to execute the following command at the command line in
>cygwin with no problem:
>
>$cp /home/Administrator/test.doc J:/docs/sfrank   (Copies the file from my
>local cygwin home directory to a mapped network share)
>
>However, when I put this (or any cp/ftp/mv command that involves a network
>share) in my crontab it spits back an error saying "Permission Denied" when
>trying to copy the file over to the mapped network share.  It seems that
>cron will only copy files to my local machine directories but not network
>shares.
>
>Just wondering why it works if I manually perform the operation but doesn't
>work ("Permission Denied") when I run it through cron.  I've also tried
>removing the file first just to make sure it wasn't copying over itself.
>
>Any ideas?


Does the user that cron run as have access to these shares?

Possible (easy) solution:  Use UNC paths instead.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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