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Posted by Joe Richards [MVP] on December 23, 2005, 12:33 pm
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Did you set the appropriate permissions on the file system too? Remote
permissions are a combination of the share and file permissions with the most
restrictive being in control. I.E. Set the files/folders with everyone write.
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Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
www.joeware.net
systematic_peter wrote:
> Hi all
> I have a problem. I am developing a service which need to run as Local
> System Account, and which need to access a directory on a remote computer, in
> order to both read and write files. Both computers are running Windows 2000
> and are in the same domain.
>
> As Local System Account do not have any network permissions as such, I have
> tried some alternative approaches but none seem to work.
>
> 1). I have tried to share the directory on the remote machine as a so called
> null session share
> (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289655), as that in
> theory should allow access to everyone and everything. But when I tried to
> write a file I got the "System error 5 has occurred.Access is denied." error.
>
> 2) Next I have tried to grant the computer account on which the service is
> running full access to the share as this article describes
>
(http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/Folder-Sharing-Computer-Accounts-ftopict225518.html).
With the same result.
>
> The way I tested both approaches this:
>
> In both methods I use UNC format and IP numbers to address the remote share,
> like this: 2.168.106.12\share\
>
> 1) Run some code in my service using the function
> OpenStreamOnFile(MAPIAllocateBuffer, MAPIFreeBuffer, ulFlags, file_name,
> szFilePrefix, out_stream) function, and also fopen(
> "2.168.106.12\share\data.dat", "w+" ). Both methods fail though.
>
> 2) started a CMD prompt with Local Systems Account credentials (using the
> method described here:
> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/47673/47673.html and the
> psexc.exe tool from sysinternals - running psexec.exe -s cmd.exe). Then tried
> to both copy a file manually using the copy command and to map a drive letter
> using "net use". But all I got was a "System error 5 has occurred.Access is
> denied."
>
> I would appreciate any help I can get. Small things to try or even whole new
> approaches, as I am really running out of ideas here. Also if you need
> further information regarding my setup, please let me know.
>
> Thanks, and a merry Christmas to all
>
> Kind regards/ Venlig hilsen
>
> Peter Langhoff Feddersen
> System Engineer, MCSD
>
> Systematic Software Engineering A/S
> Web: www.systematic.dk
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