Accessing network drive from Windows Service

[mbah Sumani via .NET 247]

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I Think it's the stupidness of Windows. Why the service can't access network drive but console apps or windows application can do it?
So my suggestion is make the program for accessing network drive in console apps, then call it with your windows service.. via windows API ..he..he that should work.

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[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

The service can't access the network drive because by default, it runs
under the LocalService account, which does not have permissions to access
the network. Services do not get any special privledges by default. The
reason you can access the drive through a console or windows app is because
you have rights to it, and by extension, the program running has rights to
it as well.

If you create a console app and then call it from the service, it will
NOT work.

You need to change the account that the service runs under to the
NetworkService account. That has access to the network.

Hope this helps.