Re: cron run task can not see samba mounts.

. Reformatted. Daksa wrote: On 2/18/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) cygwin com> wrote: ^ . Don't feed the spammers. Thanks. Daksa wrote: > As

Re: cron run task can not see samba mounts.

Thanks for the link, those pointers eventually lead to me solving this nasty issue. The FAQ makes it sound simple to get private shares working, but in reality it is not entirely straight forward. Providing the password to net use while cron was being run as the SYSTEM user did not fix the issue.

Re: cron run task can not see samba mounts.

Daksa wrote: As you can see, when I run the command manually from a xcygwin xterm the script has no issues seeing z: mounted at /mnt/z. No such luck when the script is run from cron. I notice some subtle differences in the env but I can't explain why the samba share would not appear from the c