Hi,

I have a pdf creator software on my w2k server which runs
as a service.
This software (adlib express) has to create pdf files
from word documents residing on a unix (solaris) server
in IFS oracle. These IFS folders are shared on the solaris
server through oracle samba. The w2k server can access
them through a mapped network drive.

Here is my problem :
At the moment my ADLIB Express service is launched at
boot-time (with a special service account e.g. srv-x),
the adlib has not yet access to the network share on the
solaris system and the service refuses to start.
So first, I've to mount the needed network shares (net
use).
I've put the net use commands in a batch file (.exe)
This batch file is executed by another service BEFORE the
Adlib service is started (service dependency)
When the first service (with net use commands) is
launched, he is not taking into account the given /user
and /password parameters for making connection.
Net use sipmly uses srv-x (owner of the service) to make
the connections, and this fails (red cross which is
normal) because srv-x is not known on the solaris site
(in oracle ifs user manager).
srv-x is only a service account within my domain and this
account will never be granted to have access on the IFS
filesystems. (application security reasons)

My question is : Is it possible to map some networkdrives
with another user than the owner of a service on startup ?
My problem is that nobody at that time is logged in yet
on the system and it all depends on my service account
srv-x.

thanks already for considering my problem,
Gigi









to the network drives because my service account is not
known in teh IFS user manager, and will never be, because
service accounts are defined as security on the system
site, but not know on the application site.