I faced a similar problem with a batch script on a Windows 2000 server. I had the network admins set up a service account on the domain and then I used the Windows "Scheduled Task" functionality. I selected my script directly (using "shebang" syntax to point to the perl runtime) and selected the service account in the "run as" portion. Works like a champ.

You said it needs to run nightly, and it sounds like you already have a domain ID for it, so it may be easy to set up. I think you can probably just use the standard UNC syntax for the pathnames. But I'm not 100% certain about this last part. I know that the "run-as" bit works though.



PCS

In reply to Re^2: unable to locate info on accessing UNC file as diff user by webengr
in thread unable to locate info on accessing UNC file as diff user by mushu

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