Using a windows system service with a mapped drive

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Bobby

Hello,
I need to run a service that uses some remote mapped drive. The service
does not work with the path (example) G:\FrameworkFiles but for some
reason it works when i give the path like
\\wahtever.ch\blabla\FrameworkFiles. G:\ is of course mapping the path
\\wahtever.ch\blabla\

I could understand that the mapping (G->\\whatever.....) is done after
the service is tried to start and therefore couldnt work. But, even
with when the drive is mapped and I tried to start manually the
service, I get the same error. Please, let me know if I didnt explain
myself properly.

Thank you,
 
David said:
What account is the service running in. Does that account have it mapped. Read help in the Service's applet.
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It has to be in the local system account since I need to enable the
'allow interact with desktop' checkbox. And now that I think about it,
maybe I can not map a remote drive for this account, can I?
 
What account is the service running in. Does that account have it mapped. Read help in the Service's applet.
 
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