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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 gen...
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ncrouch
Former Employee
9 years ago

Hi Adrian,

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

Cheers
Nic

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    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

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      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.

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        mukesh-neosalph
        New Contributor II
        8 years ago

        We are facing a similar issue where a network drive is not accessible on windows machine. Tried with above given suggestions but it doesn’t seem to work for us
        “file:////{server}/{share}/{path}/{path}/{filename}”

        Anybody else facing the issue or have resolved it recently?