RE: Accessing a Windows share folder using QNTC -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks everybody for the replies.
I think this will give y'all another reason to avoid QNTC. (And if you can shops with big dot-net oriented departments like mine)

Chris, I thought about creating the program to run under the Owner profile (it's a unique user profile to be used for special functions, and I think created for this present task. ) BUT we need to run this with the Start-up program at IPL. ...(We IPL nightly here, I don't know why). So we need the startup program, which runs under its own user-id, to be able to kick off this create.

Meantime I discovered this paragraph on the link that Gary posted:

10. Now sign on the System i with a user ID (usually with administrator authority on the Windows Server) that has the proper authorities to the specific shares to be accessed on the Windows Server and run WRKLNK QNTC. Type a 5 next to QNTC and press the Enter key. If you do not see the name of the Windows Server, verify Steps 2, 3, 4, and 7. If you configure Steps 5 and 6, verify those steps also. If assistance is required with Steps 4, 5, and 6 (if the DNS is other than the System i DNS) you can refer to www.microsoft.com/support, call Microsoft Support, or we can assist under a consulting agreement

I've suggested now doing the following:

#1. Change the program that creates this link to submit itself to its own job queue as the last step, but after it puts that job queue on hold.
#2. Create that job queue and put it on hold.
#3. Submit the program to that job queue.
#4. Change the start-up to release that job queue.

When the start-up runs, it will hit step #4 above and release the job that runs the program, completely under the appropriate user-ID. The program itself will put the job queue back on hold before submitting the next job to it.

(This is my first brush with QNTC.. Yuck!)

I will report back.

Thanks everybody!

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Bipes
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 4:58 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Accessing a Windows share folder using QNTC

I find if you create the program to run under Owner Profile and change the Owner to the appropriate profile, You alleviate most security issues.

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.

-----Original Message-----

What happens when you submit when you are signed on as the user in the USERID parm?
Running a job with USERID(userid) is not the same thing as running a job as that user.

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