Service cannot access mapped network drive

[Guest]

Hi,

I have a service running, which should be able to acces a mapped network
drive like H:\

Unfortuantely it doesn't work under Windows XP Prof. With W2K it works
perfectly., why?

I don't want to use the notation \\IPADDRESS\share, instead, the service
should be able to connect to h:\ directly. My service is running under the
same account like the logged in user!

Cheers, DuRu

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi,

I have a service running, which should be able to acces a mapped
network drive like H:\

Unfortuantely it doesn't work under Windows XP Prof. With W2K it works
perfectly., why?

I don't want to use the notation \\IPADDRESS\share, instead, the
service should be able to connect to h:\ directly. My service is
running under the same account like the logged in user!

Cheers, DuRu

Mapped drives are for the convenience of users, not computers. When you log
out, there's no network drive mapping.
If you absolutely positively need to use a drive mapping for some reason,
you'll need a batch file or something to map it.
But I don't understand why you wouldn't just use a UNC path like
\\computername\share ...what's the reason?