On 1/11/06, sal.talamantez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <sal.talamantez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am new to Apache web server scripting, so bear with me. I am running > Apache on a Windows XP machine. > > I have a perl script being called by the Apache web server. The perl script > creates a cmd script file that is called by perl to execute. The cmd script > runs fine except for one specific command that is failing. The failing > command is a copy command from a mapped Linux Samba drive to a local drive. > The script does not seem to have to power/permissions to run this command. > > I looked at some of the Apache documentation regarding suexec and the power > (or lack thereof) of cgi perl scripts. The general explanation was to > change the permissions for the cgi script using suexec, except that the > instructions seem to be for a Unix server. Can anyone tell me how to give a > perl script enough power to copy to a mapped drive on an Apache Web Server > in Windows? You are correct that suexec is not the way to go on windows. You should be running the apache service under a user that has the appropriate permissions. See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html#winsvc Joshua.
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