> run under my administrator account and restarted them. SC7 still could > not see any mapped drives in the Music Folder Browse window. I set it > back to running it as an application and then mapped drives appeared > and all was well.
A service doesn't see your mapped drives, whether you run it as user XY or the system account. Mapped drives are only connected when you log on. Or even, as you noticed, the first time you access them in Explorer. As there's no Explorer for the service, this wouldn't work. There's the additional option to allow a service to "interact with the desktop" (or similar) which would enable accessing mounted drives. But this doesn't make sense, as you'd rather run SC as an app if you have to log on to the machine anyway. > As this UNC/mapped Drive/Service/Application stuff seems to be in a > state of flux I'm not certain to register this as another bug or an > addition to an existing bug... or what. In this case there's no bug. It's expected behaviour. This confustion about what a service does and what not is the exact reason why we don't install SC as a service by default. Managing services in Windows obviously is something MS expects you to have a MSCSE training... _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
