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AdrianH
New Contributor II
9 years ago

Does anyone have experience of accessing files on a windows network file share?

The file writer snap is not cooperating, it’s says it’s succeeding but doesn’t appear to do anything.

Currently have an account mapped with read/write permissions, using fille:/// anything else generates an error or creates a file with a weird name on the plex.

any help much appreciated.

Yours,

Adrian

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  • ncrouch's avatar
    ncrouch
    Former Employee
    9 years ago

    Hi Adrian,

    Are you using file:/// to access the share, or smb:///?

    Cheers
    Nic

    • AdrianH's avatar
      AdrianH
      New Contributor II
      9 years ago

      Nearly….

      Trying for some reason to use file:///<file:///\> to access the network share z://, converting to SMB now.

      Yours,

      Adrian

      • del's avatar
        del
        Contributor III
        9 years ago

        @AdrianH, We interface with a file share on many of our pipelines using thing following environment and parameters:

        • Groundplex Nodes running on Windows Server on AD Network
        • Groundplex Nodes running as a Windows Service with specified logon credentials (not as System or Local Network)
        • Above mentioned logon credentials have R/W access to both the network share and target file path
        • The Snap’s file name value requires four "/"s in the protocol spec: “file:////{server}/{share}/{path}/{path}/{filename}”

        The above works for us, so we have not tried actually mapping the file share to a drive letter.