Accessing a network path via mapped drive

So, there are a couple things going on here. First, you should be able to use shares pretty much anywhere you could use physical file paths. So you should be able to use it in your CFDIRECTORY tag, I think. I haven't tested this exactly, but you can probably just do something like this:

\\{machine name}\c$

You can open a command prompt and see what shares are available by typing:

net view \\{machine name}

If you don't know your machine name - which most people including me don't know about their own machines - just type "hostname" at the command prompt to find out.

If you don't have any shares, you can create one using "net share" at the command prompt. I'm too lazy to provide all the instructions for that, so just type "net help share" to see for yourself. It's common for newer Windows machines not to have the standard set of shares that map to drive letters, I think, but there's no reason you can't make one yourself.

Note that none of this depends on having a local user vs a domain user. That I can tell you, as I just tested it. And, a service running as a user can in fact access the same things that user can, and you can control permissions for that user to control what the service can access.

I hope this helps!

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC