[Zope] Zope service network permissions on NT

[Andy McKay]

I run my Zope as "Local System account" and havent had a problem with
reboots. I connect to ODBC databases on other boxes... Dunno about NFS
Maestro.

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Stafford" <lstafford@morphics.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: [Zope] Zope service network permissions on NT


> When my NT box restarts after a power failure (we have lots of these in
> California these days), my Zope loses its ability to talk to some of the
> other hosts on the LAN.
>
> I have Zope running as a service on NT 4. The Zope service runs as user
> "zope". My Zope talks to other hosts on the LAN via:
>
> 1. NT filesystem (thru LocalFS product). No problem here. The links to the
> other fileservers are specified in UNC format (e.g.
> \\phoneserver\phonelist.txt). And the user "zope" has the requisite
> permissions on all the filesystem drives used.
>
> 2. ODBC connections to databases on other hosts. The ODBC driver forces
you
> to specify connections in terms of drive mappings (e.g. f:\phonelist.mdb).
> But after startup, when no one is logged in, there is no active user
profile
> containing drive mappings. Therefore, the ODBC connections are broken.
>
> 3. NFS Maestro mounts. The Maestro driver also forces you to specify
> connections in terms of drive mappings -- with the same problems as #2.
>
> Does anyone know how to configure NT, Zope, or the Zope service so that
> connection types #2 and #3 don't break when no one is logged in.
>
> -- Thanks
> -- Loren
>
>
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