Re: HELP! Mapped Drive and Services don't play nicely

so you can map the drive, and run the app as a service, but the app doesn't
recognize the drive? I'm not familiar with the 1TB LaCie Ethernet drive so I
guess I don't have an answer. Could you create a mount point to be a folder
on a drive it does recognize?

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dw

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"tagrove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tagrovedatasafeitcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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DW:

The problem is that it is not using a mapped drive letter in the service.
I
need it to be able to.

The Scenario:

I own a remote backup business, and just got a large customer. So, I
bought
a 1TB LaCie Ethernet drive to dedicate to them. I can map the drive in
Win
Explorer, and put that drive letter in the RBS Manager program for that
user
account. However, when the client connects (through the service running
the
application) it errors out, because the service cannot see the ethernet
disk
and the mapped drive.

So, I need to be able to have the application run as a service (in case of
server reboot), AND have the mapped drive letter accessible to the
service.

"dw" wrote:

and the problem is?

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dw

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"tagrove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
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I have a service that needs to access a mapped drive letter. I have
changed
the service to run under an account that should have the drive mapping
persistent (I mapped using windows explorer, and stated reconnect on
login).

The drawbacks:
I can't specify UNC paths in the application
I must have the application run as a service





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