[rochester-pm-list] NT & Perl - Credentials

[Shawn Porter]

Forget it.  We figured it out.  

For some reason we had to give permission for the account we created the
ability to "act as the operating system."  Strange.  Give me a good 'ol
*nix any day.  :)

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Shawn Porter
http://www.rit.net/sporter
sporter at rit.net

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On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Shawn Porter wrote:

> I'm writing a Perl script to automate some stuff on NT (yes, it sucks) and
> I'm having a problem.  One of the things it does is delete a file from a
> remote share.
> 
> At first, when I tried to delete the files I would get a "Permission
> denied" error.  Then, I tried to use a net use command to access the share
> and I'm getting a "conflicting credentials" error message.  What's up with
> that?  Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> I'm able to read the files fine.  Both systems have an account with the
> same username and password.  The files that I want to delete on the remote
> machine (and the dir they're in) have full access for the account I'm
> running this as.  The net use command I'm using is:
> 	
>   "net use \\galen\logs /U:scheduler_user the_password"
> 
> Please help. 
> 
> --
> Shawn Porter
> http://www.rit.net/sporter
> sporter at rit.net
>