Robocopy: Access Denied Error

Hi All,

I am trying to copy the files from one server to another server using robocopy. But i am getting access denied error.

Also i have RDC access on both the machine that means i can access both the servers. What type of access i required to make it running.

Any suggestion on that.

Thanx
Nidhi A

What kind of files you are trying to copy.... I mean DCRs.. DCTs.. TPLs.. WFTs... IPLs.. or what?

Please clear your requirement... n also your environment?

What kind of files you are trying to copy.... I mean DCRs.. DCTs.. TPLs.. WFTs... IPLs.. or what?

Please clear your requirement... n also your environment?

Teamsite 6.5
I am trying to copy image files like gif,bmp,jpg.
On what things i should look up?

Thanx
Nidhi A

Teamsite 6.5
I am trying to copy image files like gif,bmp,jpg.
On what things i should look up?

Thanx
Nidhi A

You need to have write access on target server/location to copy your files.... please check the permissions...

Cheers,
Ambuj Smiley Happy

You need to have write access on target server/location to copy your files.... please check the permissions...

Cheers,
Ambuj

I have access on the target folder. I think robocopy is not carrying my name from source server to destination server.

I am using simply command robocopy src_path desti_path command.
How can i carry my information with robocopy command?

Nidhi...

I have access on the target folder. I think robocopy is not carrying my name from source server to destination server.

I am using simply command robocopy src_path desti_path command.
How can i carry my information with robocopy command?

Nidhi...

robocopy is different for different versions of windows.. are you sure you are using correct version.. ??

Is simple copy working fine there?

robocopy is different for different versions of windows.. are you sure you are using correct version.. ??

Is simple copy working fine there?

Hi Ambuj,

Ya i am using right windows version of robocopy.
Even on development server it is working fine.
I am able to copy from dev server to itself successfully.
But when i am trying to give the path of prod server it is giving me
"Accees Denied" error.

Is there any robocopy command where i can provide the user information with the command itself.

Nidhi...

Hi Ambuj,

Ya i am using right windows version of robocopy.
Even on development server it is working fine.
I am able to copy from dev server to itself successfully.
But when i am trying to give the path of prod server it is giving me
"Accees Denied" error.

Is there any robocopy command where i can provide the user information with the command itself.

Nidhi...

I'm not sure whether we can provide any user information with robocopy or not but I would suggest you to look into "Robocopy.doc" which comes with windows resourse kit..

Meanwhile I will look into this n will let you know if i get something relevant...

Cheers,
Ambuj :-)

I'm not sure whether we can provide any user information with robocopy or not but I would suggest you to look into "Robocopy.doc" which comes with windows resourse kit..

Meanwhile I will look into this n will let you know if i get something relevant...

Cheers,
Ambuj :-)

Hi Ambuj,

Its looking something positive.
I have tried to run the command from cmd and it is working from there.
But not from workflow external task script file.

Nidhi...

Hi Ambuj,

Its looking something positive.
I have tried to run the command from cmd and it is working from there.
But not from workflow external task script file.

Nidhi...

Check environment variables and also check to see who the owner of the externaltask process is (it may not be "you" - it might be "SYSTEM" or similar)

Hi,

I am the owner of the task.
what else i can check?

Nidhi...

Hi,

I am the owner of the task.
what else i can check?

Nidhi...

Being the owner of the task, and the owner of the process spawned from the task are not necessarily the same thing - you can use the Perl variables $<, and $>, to determine the real and effective uid of the process running the script.

Being the owner of the task, and the owner of the process spawned from the task are not necessarily the same thing - you can use the Perl variables $<, and $>, to determine the real and effective uid of the process running the script.

Hi Ghoti,

Please tell me in detail. How i can use above values and where? On external task perl script value of $< is coming 0.
Please suggest me.

Nidhi..

Hi Ghoti,

Please tell me in detail. How i can use above values and where? On external task perl script value of $< is coming 0.
Please suggest me.

Nidhi..

Hmm - maybe this doesn't work on Windows (though perldoc perlvar doesn't indicate that it won't...)

I'm not sure that the alternative test would work either - which is creating a temporary file and doing a stat of it to figure out who the owner of the file is.

I'm reasonably sure there's a way to figure it out - perhaps just doing something like:

print $ENV{USERNAME} . "\n"

either to STDOUT or into a file ...

Hi,

Can u suggest some other tool to copy files from one server to another?
I am stucked here.
I tried alot but robocopy is not working.

Nidhi..