Re: Access files from .NET Windows Service

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I've got 2 or 3 windows services and some other apps that need to
access network drives and databases. I find it easy to have them all
run under the same user account "Robot".

But if you don't want to go that route then just change the folders
permissions to allow anyone to read and write.

But if security is an issue, I'd set up a user account.


Tom wrote:
Hmm... that is kinda ugly... Is there a way that I can simply add the
system account (the one the service is currently running under) to the
share's read/write permissions?
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Izzy wrote:

Sounds like a permissions issue. I'd create a user accout for the
service to use and give this user read\write permissions to the share.

Israel

Tom wrote:
Is it possible to access (Read via StreamReader) an external file
from a Wndows service? I.E. In the OnStart method of the service,
I need to go out and read a couple of external files (and these
files appear on a differnet server and are accessed via a UNC
syntax - i.e. \\server\share\myfile.txt). I tried this under my
VB.NET service but it keeps telling me that I have an unauthorized
file access when my service starts up)

Thanks.

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