Subj : Re: Windows XP Service Access to Network Mapped Drives problem
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Vish" <roopan@hotmail.com>
Date : Fri Jul 25 2003 02:21 pm

Bob,
You can map a network drive even if it is not in your domain only if you
have the user id and password to the target machine.
I found something interesting today is that, I created an account in the
target machine (not in the same domain) with the same user name and password
of the local machine, and in the service properties under 'Log On' tab, I
put the option of 'This account' and gave the same user id and password.
Then I tried to access the network drive using UNC
(\\machine_name\share\file) and it successfully found the file at the target
machine in the service. But another problem came up was that this service
doesn't interact with the desktop (means you don't see the service icon in
the system tray), since you specified a specific account. I am not sure how
to solve this.

Any feedback appreciated.
Thanks


"Bob Gonder" <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote in message
news:g3u2ivo7cparvrii8fai8hc146umsb59k4@4ax.com...
> Vish wrote:
>
> >Thanks Bob, I tried with UNC, but it recognizes only drives within the
same
> >domain not another machine in the network. For example
> >\\othermachine\share\test.txt (this is in the same domain) works fine.,
but
> >if I try to access \\185.12.34.123\share\test.txt (another machine
connected
> >in the network) it doesn't work. Do you have any comments on this?
>
> Since it isn't in your domain, maybe you don't have access to it?
> How were you able to get a mapped drive to it? (You were talking about
> using mapped drives, and AFAIK UNC works for mapable drives.)
>
> I know next to nothing about networking.
> Perhaps there is a network group here?
>

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