Re: MAPPING Problem


"Bart" <blwegrzyn@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1115672432.089788.38540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello,
>
> I am running win2000 as my backupo server. For backups I use a third
> party software.
> My backups are stored on the external network storage, which is in
> different building.
> My network storage is using the nfs file system, which allows me to
> perform bigger backups than 4G.
> Normally I map the storage drive as X: drive using the map command. (I
> have the services for unix installled). My map script looks like this:
> >>
> net use x: \\192.168.40.7\share1 /persistent:yes
> /user:domainname\administrator
> >>
> Nothing complicated. I want to be sure that my backing software will
> have the X drive available every time it starts the backup. Because I
> know that backups starts at 12.00 pm I wrote a script that will map the
> drive x. The script will run everyday at 11:50 pm using the scheduler.
> Scripts looks like above one.
> Unfortunalely when I try run that script using the scheaduled task, the
> drive is never mapped.
> When I run it by clicking it it runs ok and maps the drive.
>
> I wrote another script which is started by scheduler with command:
> "C:\mapx.bat > c:\log2.txt" to find out what is going on.
> <<
> The script looks like this:
> echo %username%
> net use x: /delete
> net use x: \\192.168.40.7\share1 /persistent:yes
> x:
> dir
> cd saturn_files
> dir
> <<
>
> If I run it using the scheduler the log2.txt file looks like this:
>
> C:\>echo Administrator
> Administrator
>
> C:\>net use x: /delete
>
> C:\>net use x: \\192.168.40.7\share1 /persistent:yes
>
> C:\>x:
>
> X:\>dir
> Volume in drive X is Single disk
> Volume Serial Number is 12CF-5493
>
> Directory of X:\
>
> 05/07/2005 09:11p <DIR> .
> 05/09/2005 04:16p <DIR> ..
> 03/28/2005 12:39p <DIR> WWW
> 05/07/2005 06:18p <DIR> venus_files
> 05/07/2005 07:18p <DIR> moon_files
> 05/07/2005 08:19p <DIR> saturn_files
> 04/26/2005 02:10a <DIR> saturn_files_nfs
> 11/08/2004 07:33p <DIR> backup_files
> 11/09/2004 05:04p <DIR> media_files
> 04/25/2005 09:24p <DIR> moon_files_nfs
> 05/07/2005 05:19p <DIR> print_files
> 05/07/2005 06:57p <DIR> backup_files_nfs
> 01/31/2005 10:57a <DIR> client_files_nfs
> 01/31/2005 02:05p <DIR> clients_files_nfs
> 0 File(s) 0 bytes
> 14 Dir(s) 128,575,807,488 bytes free
>
> X:\>cd saturn_files
>
> X:\saturn_files>dir
> Volume in drive X is Single disk
> Volume Serial Number is 12CF-5493
>
> Directory of X:\saturn_files
>
> 05/07/2005 08:19p <DIR> .
> 05/07/2005 09:11p <DIR> ..
> 05/07/2005 08:55p 4,854,423,552 c_systemstate.bkf
> 1 File(s) 4,854,423,552 bytes
> 2 Dir(s) 128,575,807,488 bytes free
>
> >From the output I must say that the drive was mapped and everything was
> fine.
> Unfortuantely the drive is not showing up in my computer.
>
> When I run the same script by clicking it the output is a little bit
> different:
>
>
> C:\>echo Administrator
> Administrator
>
> C:\>net use x: /delete
> x: was deleted successfully. (THIS IS NOT IN THE ABOVE OUTPUT)
>
>
> C:\>net use x: \\192.168.40.7\share1 /persistent:yes
> The command completed successfully. (THIS IS NOT IN THE ABOVE OUTPUT)
>
>
> C:\>x:
>
> X:\>dir
> Volume in drive X is Single disk
> Volume Serial Number is 12CF-5493
>
> Directory of X:\
>
> 05/07/2005 09:11p <DIR> .
> 05/09/2005 04:19p <DIR> ..
> 03/28/2005 12:39p <DIR> WWW
> 05/07/2005 06:18p <DIR> venus_files
> 05/07/2005 07:18p <DIR> moon_files
> 05/07/2005 08:19p <DIR> saturn_files
> 04/26/2005 02:10a <DIR> saturn_files_nfs
> 11/08/2004 07:33p <DIR> backup_files
> 11/09/2004 05:04p <DIR> media_files
> 04/25/2005 09:24p <DIR> moon_files_nfs
> 05/07/2005 05:19p <DIR> print_files
> 05/07/2005 06:57p <DIR> backup_files_nfs
> 01/31/2005 10:57a <DIR> client_files_nfs
> 01/31/2005 02:05p <DIR> clients_files_nfs
> 0 File(s) 0 bytes
> 14 Dir(s) 128,575,807,488 bytes free
>
> X:\>cd saturn_files
>
> X:\saturn_files>dir
> Volume in drive X is Single disk
> Volume Serial Number is 12CF-5493
>
> Directory of X:\saturn_files
>
> 05/07/2005 08:19p <DIR> .
> 05/07/2005 09:11p <DIR> ..
> 05/07/2005 08:55p 4,854,423,552 c_systemstate.bkf
> 1 File(s) 4,854,423,552 bytes
> 2 Dir(s) 128,575,807,488 bytes free
>
> Any ideas what could be wrong. Could it be related to nfs?
>
> Bart
>

An afterthought: You must also delete the mapped drive after
backup has finished. If you don't then you will have problems
with this drive letter later on:

@echo off
net use x: ...
ntbackup
net use x: /del


.

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