Re: W2K vs W2K3 - drive mapping behavior changes ?


"Michael McCarty" <user@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

Did the behavior with regards to the visibility of mapped drives change
significantly between W2K and W2K3 ? I have an application running as a
service under a domain account, that, on W2K, is perfectly able to
access a remote share via a mapped drive letter once that mapping is
established interactively, via Explorer.

On W2k3 however, this does not seem to work; the service does not even
see the mapped drive.

All protections and permissions are wide open, and the accounts involved
are all domain accounts belonging to the Administrator group on both
machines.

I know that for XP and on the official recommendation is to use UNC path
names, but for legacy reasons that is not an option.

Any helpful pointers to articles or tech notes would be greatly
appreciated. TIA.

Mike

No, nothing has changed but I suspect that your service does not
run under a suitably authorised account. You can easily test this
by using the Task Scheduler (which is equivalent to a service) to
run this simple batch file:

@echo off
echo %date% %time% User=%UserName% >> c:\test.txt
dir \\YourServer\YourShare 1>> c:\test.txt 2>>&1

Make sure to specify the ***same*** account and the
***same*** share as you specified in your failed service.


.

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