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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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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.

  • mukesh-neosalph's avatar
    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?

    • nganapathiraju's avatar
      nganapathiraju
      Former Employee
      8 years ago

      what @del mentioned is a straightforward configuration. Please work with the support to get it resolved.

      • mukesh-neosalph's avatar
        mukesh-neosalph
        New Contributor II
        8 years ago

        @nganapathiraju I have contacted Support and waiting for their help.
        We are using Basic Auth as account type, if it has any correlation with the issue we are facing for network drive access on windows machine.