Excellent solution! Thanks Bill! Knew there had to be a better way! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Downall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 8:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: File Builder

Gene,

Don't map the drive, just share it to the user name that the Witango
service runs under, and use the unc name:

\\servername\ETDOCS\<@VAR request$Docname>

Wolf, Gene wrote:
> OK, I'm stumped. We have set up another Witango Server (Windows) in 
> addition to the one we have been running and everything seemed to work

> fine. The second box was receiving and processing requests, response 
> time looked like it had improved, etc. Great! However, we create a 
> good number of reports in PDF format and write them to a directory.  
> We use this in our paperless shipping systems, etc.
> 
> Now comes the problem. In the File builder we specify a specific 
> directory, for example,
> 
> D:/ETDocs/<@Var Local$Docname>
> 
> Now, depending on which server this executes on, it seems to me this 
> file would be written to different machines. If a person came back 
> later and tried to look at that document they may, or may not, get the

> machine that this document is located on and not be able to see the
file.
> 
> Now, I suppose we could map drive letters on every server to point to 
> the same place and make sure all of the drive letters are the same on 
> every server but this seem inelegant. Has anyone run into this before 
> and how did you work around it?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
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