Windowsservice an Mapped Drive

[Mathias Fritsch]

My service runs under a Domain Account mydomain\myuser.
If I log into my system under this mydomain\myuser I have acces to a
mapped drive x:\ which is mapped to \\mydomain\mymachine\myfolder.

The service can acces \\mydomain\mymachine\myfolder but not x:\.
A winform application which I start when logged in as mydomain\myuser
has access to x.


Any ideas?

Mathias Fritsch

 

[Daniel Bass]

This is not the fact that you have access rights or don't, but that a mapped
drive only exists when you are logged in. A mapped drive is tied to a user's
profile, which is not used by a service running as that user.

If I were you I'd keep reference the path with the fully qualified UNC
anyway.

Cheers.
Dan.

 

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello Daniel,

Your system account, which is used to start service, has no rights to the
mapped drive
U need to use your accound credentials with impersonalisation to start service
and then you get access to the mapped drive

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DB> This is not the fact that you have access rights or don't, but that
DB> a mapped drive only exists when you are logged in. A mapped drive is
DB> tied to a user's profile, which is not used by a service running as
DB> that user.
DB>
DB> If I were you I'd keep reference the path with the fully qualified
DB> UNC anyway.
DB>
DB> Cheers.
DB> Dan.
DB> DB>

 

[Mathias Fritsch]

Daniel,

I didnt know that. Now the service creates the mapped drive and
everything works great.
Thank you

Mathias