[Samba] How can Windows 2000 mount a share as a service?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 17:11, Malcolm Baldridge wrote:
> I've asked every M$ expert I know, trolled through M$ TechNet, experimented
> with SRVANY/INSTSRV login scripts which hard-code username/passwords to
> login to a Samba 2.2.8a SMB server.  I've experiment with and without the
> "Allow service to interact with Desktop" switch turned on.
> 
> I am stuck. :(   I can find no way to mount a share as a service, so that
> IIS can serve web-pages from a shared content directed located on a network
> drive.
> 
> When I run my login script when I'm logged in as the Administrator or
> another user, the script works fine.  The share's mounted and available as
> the specified drive letter specified in the script.
> 
> I'm using just the standard "net use" as follows:
> 
> net use z: \\192.168.0.1\Web mypassword /user:webuser
> 
> I've fiddled with adding a domain name to the user, to no avail. I've
> experimented with using the samba server's "Netbios" name as well as DNS
> name, to no avail.
> 
> The script only seems to work when SOMEONE is logged into the machine.  When
> it's run as a service, no dice.  It just fails with a single digit error
> code (5, I think).  The error is opaque and non-descriptive.  It's as if SMB
> mounting was specifically prohibited by the OS at some internal bowel juncture.
> 
> This is insane.  Surely, people running web-server clusters behind load
> balancers don't manually synchronise their content!  My web application
> accepts user-uploaded files, so I can't use the "manual resync" method
> anyway.  The upload area needs to be shared by all web-server members.
> 
> There must be a solution for this very common requirement.  I don't want or
> need a "SAN" block-device-level solution, I want a file-level solution.
> 
> If anyone can share some ideas or experise, I would be very grateful.  This
> must be a solved problem somewhere.
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Craig