How do you use nAnt to copy files to a non-domain machine

Question

I have a nAnt script that works perfectly to build and copy a website to another domain machine. However, when I try to copy the website to a machine not on the domain I get security errors.

I know it's because the user that I have set to run nAnt doesn't have permissions on the remote computer.

Is it possible to specify a remote user to authenticate against when trying to copy files to a non-domain computer? There doesn't seem to be any options for this in the official nAnt documentation.

What other options are available?

Answer 1

We've got round this by having a account with the same username and password on all servers that are involved in the copy. However, we do it the other way round. We copy from a machine in a workgroup to a maching in a domain and it works fine.

e.g. useraccount on workgroup computer: .\CruiseControl password1

useraccount on domain: domain\CruiseControl password1

Answer 2

I've stumbled upon the same problem. Ended up using PsExec to call XCOPY. Works fine.

Answer 3

I answered a question that was similar to this.

One might be able to use the exec task to launch the runas command to copy (or xcopy) the files over to a computer with a different username/password. If this is a non-domain account, you might have to use the local administrator account to authenticate. I'm not 100% on that one.

This should allow you to stay within NAnt. Let me know if this is not sufficient and we can try and figure something else out.