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Posted by Joe Richards [MVP] on May 9, 2007, 10:16 pm
Please log in for more thread options It isn't a purposely design decision to have it work on client but not
server, it is evolution of the OS overall, Windows Server 2003 came out
after XP. Check it out on Vista, that is the current client OS.
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Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net
---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available---
http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm
berni wrote:
> wrote:
>> There have been more and more changes in this area. Plain and simple,
>> you can no longer use mapped drives across sessions. Even if you have
>> user1 logged in and do a runas as user1 that new session won't have
>> access to the drive letters of the interactive session.
>>
>> Microsoft has been telling people forever (like mid-90's at least) to
>> not use mapped drives with services.
>>
>> This is just one article about this...
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180362/EN-US/
>>
>> Basically services should all use UNCs.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Richards Microsoft MVPWindowsServer Directory Services
>> Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Editionwww.joeware.net
>>
>> ---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available---
>>
>> http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> berni wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> I have awindowsservicethat monitors files onwindowsand unix
>>> servers. ReflectionsNFSis installed and the UNIX paths are mapped
>>> to drives. On my developer machine (XP) theserviceruns as expected
>>> and can see the mapped unix drives.
>>> After installing theserviceonWindows2003 server SP1, theservice
>>> can no longer see the mapped drives, the error message returned is:
>>> Could not find a part of the path "M:\". When trying the full path \
>>> \ServerIPAddress\directory access is also denied.
>>> On the server, the mapped drives are visible in Explorer and all files
>>> can be seen.
>>> Hoping someone can shed some light on this issue. Any ideas??
>>> Thanks
>>> Berni- Hide quoted text -
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Hi Joe
>
> thanks for your post.
>
> Have done some more reading (and testing) and agree it can't be
> resolved with logged-in user and service runas user combo as services
> are run in their own sessions. Would be helpful if service behaviour
> was the same for both XP and Server environments - as the service on
> XP can see the mapped drives.
>
> Will now investigate why the service cannot see UNC paths for the NFS
> network.
>
> Thanks
> Berni
>
>
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