Re: access file shares from a service

"Chris Curvey" <> wrote in message
news:40507413-c484-4258-8390-...
> I'm trying to get access to a file share from a subprocess within a
> windows service. Within my service, I launch another process that
> runs an executable.
>
> This works:
>
> dir c:\ > c:\foobar.txt
>
> this works if I run it through a command window, but fails if I run it
> through my service. (I am having trouble capturing the error message,
> I'm tracking that down separately.)
>
> dir j:\ > c:\foobar.txt
>
> I am logged on as MYDOMAIN\ccurvey, and the server is running as
> MYDOMAIN\ccurvey (I had to grant that account "log in as a service").
>
> Can I do what I'm trying to do with domain accounts, or do I have to
> create local accounts on the two machines?

The service account under whose credentials the service runs needs to have
appropriate access to any resources the service needs to work with.

/Al