mapped drive missing when run as a service

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Monday 4/12/2006 20:30, Thomas Thomas wrote:

>I have a python application which i run as a service..
>
>      import win32api,string
>     drives=win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings()
>     drives=string.splitfields(drives,'\000')
>     print drives
>
>in the list of drives my mapped network drive is not showing when i 
>run the application as a service.
>I tried running the service as an administrator but with similar results..
>
>any work around for this situation..
>
>All i want is to access network files when run the application as a service..

Services usually run as Local System account, and it does not have 
access to mapped drives (that depends on the logged-in user).
You can use a UNC path instead: \\servername\sharename


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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