thanks Nicky

Missed that, I'll read the notes again, thanks for the heads-up

as a small side note to Vic Sun's reply, there is also a note in that same 2018.1.4 upgrade notes that says

( my username already has admin rights but just another thing to think of )

looking at the docs quickly, this seems to be in the upgrade notes from 2018.1.3 moving to 2018.1.4

I'm currently still on 2017.2.1 so I'm not sure it applies to me yet??

late this afternoon ( 1hour ago), we got a bit further by dropping any shares under ".\kevin" then shutting down the live instance of cache,  before recreating some shares and getting prompted for the password of the remote machine, Once we got this bit working, and restarting Cache, the background cache->remote machine started working again.

we are still busy testing this, but perhaps there was some corruption in remembering the share name/password and re-setting the password has done something.

Still not sure if it's totally working and it will be overnight before the checking is complete.

thanks to all those folk who offered solutions, it's certainly had us puzzled for a while. 

kev

Yes it's run on the live server (where I'm having problems) with the local account "kevin" - in theory, the same as the cache.exe service

Eduard.

logging in as the current user within terminal is exactly what I thought was happening, but in this case, I have the Cache.exe service logging in as  ".\kevin" and I've logged in as the user "kevin" so in theory, the background and terminal should be returning the same access rights and so returning the same results but it doesn't.

kev.

Julius,

when I run the commands in order you suggest, I get

Start Port: 49152
No of Ports : 16384

less than 6 pages when I look for the actual in use ports

and when I try to find the "bad guys", there's none.

the stats have been taken within 10 minutes of a reboot, and still I can't access the background network shares.

I'm guessing this isn't the problem.

thats what I'm looking for,

thanks Alexander

that was fast, just 13 minutes for an answer,  nice one

I'll test it tomorrow, but in the mean time, looks like I'll accept this as the answer

system currently in use so I can't immediately test. I get full access in 10 hours time.

in the mean time, a 5 minute test failed in the same way as did a 30 minute and the 24hour test. Nothing created the html files in all cases.

what's confusing here is that the log file happily go created, but the html file failed.

in each case, there was only ever one single log file which contains the commands that will be executed, no other log files were created  at any time

strangely enough, the ^Buttons file did create the html file from exactly the same window terminal that we've just run the three test of ^pButtons

Evgeny.

I've played with the links, much better, thumbs up, one thing, and it may be my imagination.

if you open a link (new tab or otherwise), it seems to jump part way down the article.

could you tweak it, so that it opens at the top of the new page please.

subtle, but would help

kev

thanks Eduard

thanks Eduard

Eduard.

Thanks for the answer,

where do you store the unique salt ? in a macro ? I need this so that I can automatically log into the email server as a single user to send the email as though they sent it.

it's got to be stored somewhere

I want to make it clear (from the title) that I have just "plain Cache@ ie not ensemble, iris etc. My intention is to use encryption and only store encrypted values,  never ever plain text

no, no.

just 2-300 users, each with a few passwords. I just want to be able to store the safely, use them within objectScript and then look them up to see what the actual password was so that I can reset their devices etc when they c one in for repair/upgrades etc.

kev

Thanks John.

Although unique string is indeed generated ( for instance 1328BACC-D8A5-46C7-BACC-19634E0F83A2 ), its not a very memorable directory name and so, in my head, I'd dismissed the instanceGUID.

I would need to keep track of which machine/instance "1328BACC-D8A5-46C7-BACC-19634E0F83A2" is being generated to instantly know the content. of any given folder.

kev

Robert, I think there's a mistake in the 5rh line whereby variable "p" is undefined.

s ping="ping 10.10.12."_p

the thing about this code is that you have to know the first part of the IPaddress you are pinging, and thats part of what I want to automate

kevin