Can not access mapped drive

[Jack]

Hi,

My OS is Windows XP. I mapped a drive on another machine running
Windows 2000.
I set the permission of the mapped drive on the Windows 2000 machine
to be "accessible to everyone". On the Windows XP machine I can access
the mapped drive through Explore. By one of my third party software
can not access the mapped drive if I only use the drive ID of the
mapped drive, like E:. If I use UNC, e.g., \\host\\directory, the
third party software can access that drive.
What is the problem?

Thanks.

Jack

 

[Brian Muth]

Drive mappings are part of the user's profile. Your third party software
must run under the security identity of the same user who set the mapping.
If the third party software is running as a service, for example, then
obviously this will fail, because services do not load their profiles upon
startup (by default).

Brian