Subj : Re: Windows XP Service Access to Network Mapped Drives problem
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
Date : Thu Jul 24 2003 12:14 pm

Vish wrote:

> I have this application written in Borland C++ Builder 5.5 (running as
>windows Service on XP Machine) and I am trying to access a network mapped
>drive inside the application and it always returns error and doesn't
>recognize the network mapped drive. Do anyone has any solution for this?
>When the same runs as application there is no problem in accessing the
>network drive, it is giving problem only while running as service.

I'm probably blowing smoke here, but it seems to me that mapped drives
are a "user" thing, and services are a "system" thing. So the service
could not know/rely on the user's settings (because a different user
could log on, and there goes the mapping).

The service should use the UNC for the connection.

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