Hi All,

How to search some files which are available in Mapped Drives,through windows service.
eg.My windows service will run on my machine, whatever drives are mapped ,my service will search specific files on that drives,and return path info for that file, to windows service.

Any sample or input??

Thanks,
Vinod

Cheers :)

vinod

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Cheers :)

vinod

The problem with windows mapped drives is that (to my knowledge based on experience) they are only visible from the perspective of the user that mapped them. I.e. if you are viewing the drives from a windows server (running under the system account) you won't be able to see the mapped drives. There are supposedly ways to script a drive mapping so it's visible from the system level, but the methods I've tried have not been reliable.

-Peter
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I think if you configure to run the service under a specific user account, you should see the drive mappings for that account.

Not 100% sure as I never tested this...

Imar


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I think I've tried this and found it not to be the case.

The drive mappings are restored on user session login. Running a service application under a particular user identity won't provide mappings.

-Peter
compiledthoughts.com

I think you're right. My bad.... ;)

Imar


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