Re: Giving LocalSystem network access

From: Asheesh Laroia (pan-news@asheeshenterprises.com)
Date: 05/09/02


From: Asheesh Laroia <pan-news@asheeshenterprises.com>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 23:26:38 GMT


Okay. How do I do that? Do I need to call a Win32 API to set the
username/password pair, or is there an environment variable I can use?

And is it possible to have SYSTEM just use the local Administrator account
for authentication without supplying it the password?

-- Asheesh.

(Thanks for replying!)

On Wed, 08 May 2002 19:23:01 -0400, Joe Richards [MVP] wrote:

> You would have to specially write the service to connect to the remote
> machines with a userid and password that you stored somewhere.
>
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> Joe Richards
> www.joeware.net
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>
> "Asheesh Laroia" <pan-news@asheeshenterprises.com> wrote in message
> news:yF1C8.50881$qU1.9915055@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com...
>> I have some services running as LocalSystem. They need to interact
>> with files on remote filesystems. Can the LocalSystem be assigned an
>> SMB name and password to use? I can log on to those remote filesystems
>> using a password and username I have been supplied, but I cannot enable
>> null sessions there.
>>
>> Alternatively, can local SYSTEM processes use the network as a given
>> username/password pair by some registry or other config setting?
>>
>> -- Asheesh.



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