Re: Getting services to see 'subst' drives

Thanks for the link. The annoying thing isn't that it's per-user (since I
could set the service to run as my account instead of the system), but that
it doesn't persist between sessions for that user and there's no way to set
it up for the service's session.

We'll probably just go for the repartitioning...

--
Andy


"Anteaus" <Anteaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/forums/xp-networking/subst-no-longer-works-did-85099.html

I like they way they say "was done for security reasons" :-/

Um, yes, so it's the reason we now have to use automatic logon on 2003
servers, so that processes which need LAN access can run under a single
common useraccount instead of as services? Improved security?

Not.


"Andrew McDonald" wrote:

I need a service running on an XP Pro SP3 box to access a drive letter
which is created using subst. However I can't find any way to set this
up; I think subst setups are limited to the session they're created in,
is that right? I've tried putting the command in HKLM Run, boot time
scheduled task, logon time scheduled task, and setting the service to run
as my user account & trying an HKCU Run task, but none of that seems to
get executed/affect the session created for the service.

I've also tried sharing the folder on the network and setting a
persistant connection to it instead of using subst, but that didn't work
either.

Any advice? If it's not possible, i.e. there's no way to set up the
environment in which a service runs, I guess I'll just create an extra
partition and name it properly instead of using subst...

Thanks in advance,
Andy


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