Local Essentials account permissions to WriteFile to network drive?

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2. Mai 2014 22:02

Hi Everyone,

I have a workflow that needs to write excel files to a location on a network drive.

However I believe the local account [myserver]\Essentials needs to have permissions to where the data is being written to.

Since it's a network drive, and the account is local to the server, i'm not sure how to apply the permissions. 

Is this even possible?

I was going to  create an Active Directory version of the local account, but the only problem is I don't know what the password is for the local account.

Where would I found this password, and if I changed it would it break something?

Any help would be really appreciated!

Thank You,

Laura

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  Ryan Cooney

  3. Mai 2014 04:09

  Hi Laura,

  If you create an AD account for the Essentials application you will need to change the Essentials Application Pool (usually EssentialsAppPool4) to use the account.

  1. Open IIS Manager
  2. Right click the Application Pool
  3. Click "Advanced Settings"
  4. Click the "..." button for the Identity
  5. Select "Custom Account"
  6. Click "Set" and supply the credentials
  7. Click "OK" on all the dialogs to complete exit
  8. Re-run the Essentials Post Installer (this will grant the new user the correct file permissions on the various Essentials folders)

  There is no need for the passwords of the old and new accounts to agree.

   

  There are other possible solutions to this problem:

  • You can create the same local user on the machine that owns the network share. In this case the usernames and passwords of the two accounts must match. There is no way to recover the password for the local Essentials user, but you can reset it. You will need to go through the same steps above to update the app pool to use the new password.

   

  --Ryan

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  Permanently deleted user

  16. März 2017 18:22

  Hi Laura,

   

  Did you get this working? We're trying to do the same thing and I'm also having trouble getting access to our shared drive.

   

  Thanks,

   

  Yaoyi

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  Permanently deleted user

  9. Mai 2017 17:21

  Hi Yaoyi,

   

  The method that Ryan posted should still work, did you try that?  If you turn your REST log level up to debug, and check the REST logs, do you see any errors?

   

  Thanks!

   

  Danny

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