RE: [Condor-users] Behaviour of Windows "copy" command?

[Bruce Beckles <mbb10@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Kewley, J (John) wrote:

> > If you have tight control over the Windows machines, you can create a
> > small NTFS volume with the appropriate permissions and mount
> > it to more or
> > less any directory path you like (this is supported from at
> > least Windows
> > 2000 onwards).  That would obviously have to be set up in
> > advance and is a
> > truly horrible workaround, but it would do it...
> >
> >  	-- Bruce
>
> Getting at network drives can be tricky under Condor unless you are either running
> under your own user or your condor user has permissions to access the remote drives.

Indeed, but I wasn't thinking of a network drive: I was thinking of a 
local partition on each machine that you set aside for the application 
with the hard-coded paths (after, of course, you had shot the 
application's developer for incompetence).  That's why I said you needed 
"tight control" over the Windows machines.  You set up these local 
partitions and then mount them in advance.  Then when the Condor runs the 
application, the application can write to the hard-coded place.

I'm not recommending this - it's horrible - just saying that it is a 
possible workaround.

	-- B

--
Bruce Beckles,
e-Science Specialist,
University of Cambridge Computing Service.