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

AdrianH
New Contributor II

The file writer snap is not cooperating, itโ€™s says itโ€™s succeeding but doesnโ€™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
Former Employee

Hi Adrian,

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

Cheers
Nic

AdrianH
New Contributor II

Nearlyโ€ฆ.

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

@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 Snapโ€™s file name value requires four "/"s in the protocol spec: โ€œfile:////{server}/{share}/{path}/{path}/{filename}โ€

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

mukesh-neosalph
New Contributor II

We are facing a similar issue where a network drive is not accessible on windows machine. Tried with above given suggestions but it doesnโ€™t seem to work for us
โ€œfile:////{server}/{share}/{path}/{path}/{filename}โ€

Anybody else facing the issue or have resolved it recently?