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thinking about it too.. I have other batch files that don't do copies off, that execute just fine... seems like its a problem with xcopy and when the server isn't logged in thats the problem.. is there a special switch maybe that needs to be put into place? Just going to reiterate what I already sa...

thinking about it too.. I have other batch files that don't do copies off, that execute just fine... seems like its a problem with xcopy and when the server isn't logged in thats the problem.. is there a special switch maybe that needs to be put into place?

So, I have another issue with this same situation.. again this is windows 2003....You can login and run the jobs manually through task scheduler, works fine. But if you log off the server and in my case the service account the jobs will execute but they won't do the job... for instance I have my job...

you guys are absolutely right.. The issue is with the maintenance account that task scheduler has assigned to it doesn't have the correct privs to the share...
Thanks for all the input... Appreciated..

I used the UNC path in the batch file, and yes have the user and password in the task scheduler, the UNC in the batch file didn't work. are you suggesting I use the net use in the batch file as well as the UNC? so net use z:\ path -----> checked in dos Xcopy D:\source\*.* Z:\dest\absolute_path\*.* /...

Hey guys, I have a batch job that i set up using windows 2003, I setup a simple copy command to copy some files over to a mapped directory several times a day. The problem lies when running it through task manager it runs, but doesn't execute the batch file. Running the code manually in dos works, c...