[Lazarus] Write to UNC or mapped drive

[Marc Weustink]

On May 25, 2016 8:58:11 PM GMT+02:00, "Santiago A." <svaa at ciberpiula.net> wrote:
>El 24/05/2016 a las 21:46, Leonardo M. Ramé escribió:
>> Hi, My app is a CGI running on Windows2012 (IIS 7.0), it needs to
>save
>> a file to a remote UNC or Mapped drive, but when I check using
>> DirectoryExists in both cases I get False, but of course the UNC and
>> mapped drive exists.
>>
>> Any hint?.
>>
>> Regards,
>Not sure 100%, but I think that mapped drives only work  when a user
>opens a desktop session. Services don't know about mapped drives. Think
>of it, in the same server, different users may map the same network
>resource with a different letter.

Correct. Drivemappings are user specific. You get the same if you want to run something as administrator from a mapping.


>Instead of mapped drives I think you should use \\server\resource, and
>the user who runs the service that calls the CGI must have permission
>on
>that resource. If the service is run as "Local system", I don't know
>how
>to grant permission in a remote machine.

Depends on windows version, iirc on modern versions local system (or was it local service) it has no network access

Marc