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| Document ID: | 1675 |
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| Subject: | Mapped drives in SynaMan |
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| Creation date: | 3/8/11 10:08 AM |
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| Last modified on: | 8/21/18 11:53 AM |
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Mapped drives in SynaMan
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This page is now obsolete because this feature has been added in SynaMan v4.1.
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Often users ask us if they can create a shared drive based on a mapped drive in SynaMan.
This is done relatively easily on Linux and Mac OS X by mounting a remote location. Refer to the
documentation for Linux and Mac to see how to mount a drive residing on some other machine
This is a bit more challenging on Windows. SynaMan runs as a
Windows Service that starts at boot
time. Mapped drives are user specific and are only available to the user who is currently logged in.
For example, drives mapped by
User A are not visible to
User B. Services on Windows are
typically run using the built-in
System account and therefore,
mapped drives for a user are not available to SynaMan. Additionally, the actual mapping occurs when a user
logs in interactively. Therefore, a background process (that never needs to actually login) will never see a mapped drive.
One work-around is that you run SynaMan's service as a normal user and use the UNC style
path to connect to a remote machine. Additionally, you must have the same user with matching password
on the remote machine. There is no way to specify a user id and password to the operating system within
a service.
Consider the following example:
- You are running SynaMan on
machine A
- You want to share a folder on
machine B through SynaMan running on
machine A
- You create a user called
userA on machine A
and run the SynaMan's service as this user.
- You create a user called
userA on machine B
as well with the same password you used on machine A
- Try logging in as
userA on machine A and
access the shared drive on machine B using UNC style path,
for example: \\MachineB\TestShare . Ensure the OS does
NOT prompt you for a password. If it does, the shared drive
won't work in SynaMan
- Now create a shared drive in SynaMan using the same UNC path.
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