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    copied!<p>I have an executable that is started by a windows service, this program will be run on a customers machine and will need to connect to a remote share to perform a particular task. This share is specified by the customer via a UI, so we do not know this in advance meaning it can't be "hard-coded", or the share mapped in advance.</p> <p>Previously we required the customer to log on to their machine and run the executable on log-on , but we have always wanted to allow our program to run within a service and not require a log-in, primarily to make it easier for the customer and prevent any accidental log-outs shutting down our software. So this also means we don't know what local user accounts exist on a customers machine, so we have to start the service using the local system account.</p> <p>We now have, as mentioned above, a wrapper service to start the executable and perform various tasks. This appears to work fine in most cases and accesses the underlying network fine - our software's purpose mainly involves capturing packets etc.</p> <p>However, when the software tries to connect to a windows share (UNC name) it cannot connect. Whereas if the executable was started manually it connects fine.</p> <p>The suggestions I have generally seen to resolve these kind of issues appear to all say use a user account as the system account cannot access network shares, but in our case this isn't possible. Is there any other way we could get this to work?</p> <p><strong>Edit: I forgot to mention that this application could (and most commonly will be) run on Win2K not XP, and I think I'm right in saying that the Local Network account is not available before XP?</strong></p>
 

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