I think Christopher is correct - go with UNC file descriptions.
You are still going to have an issue with server permissions (the Cold Fusion Server
user still needs to have access right to the server/drives/directories you are looking
towards.)
To expand, UNC descriptions would look like:
\
keep in mind that drives are mapped on an account-by-account basis. so, if i'm a user
on your machine, the path you have mapped to M:\ in your account is NOT accessible by
me.
that being said, the CF service runs as LocalSystem, by default. this account will
NOT have any mapped drives (if me
BTW - When I say CF is running as that same user I mean the Cold Fusion
Application Server service.
-Original Message-
From: Rob Baxter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:52 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CFDirectory Network Drive - Help
Mapped drives are
There is a way to assign a system drive mapping to a user and have that
mapping active without the user being logged in at the console. This
involves a registry hack and changing the user that the ColdFusion service
runs as, but unfortunately I cannot find the URL for the page with all of
the det
Mapped drives are specific to the current user. Unless the user who mapped
the drive is currently logged into the server AND CF is running as that same
user the mapping will not be available to CF. For these reasons it is not a
good idea to depend on mapped drives. To bad CF won't work with UNC pa
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