Windows, File Adapter, UNC path

[Former Member]

Hi <experts>

Does somebody have experience with UNC paths in a file adapter?

According to SAP note 821267 Q38 it should be no problem in a Windows environment.

I'm in a pure Windows environment, and want my receiver file adapter to write files to server XXX which has a share called YYY.

I have entered
XXX\YYY in my target directory field but com. channel keeps saying that the directory does not exist.

I have created user SAPService<SID> on server XXX with full rights.

Are there any other prerequisites .... anything I've overlooked ?

Help highly appreciated (with points)

[Former Member]

Hi Hans,

we had a lot of troube with thant.

See that the user/password has also the appropriate rights.

Regards mario

[Former Member]

Mario, you're telling me that you had a lot of trouble. It would be very valuable for me to know wheter you actually made it work - or not ??

thanks,

Hans

[Former Member]

Hi Hans,

sorry it is over one year ago. I can't remember the trouble in detail. But it was a lot of trial and error.

Regards Mario

[Former Member]

File Adapter does not support that. You must mount this path locally using Samba ( www.samba.org ) so XI can see that as a local directory.

[Former Member]

true, you need to mount (or map) the Server path into XI Server's file system as a local directory.

Regards,

Suddha

[Former Member]

Vitor,

You speak about Samba and mount. Isn't that only relevant in an AIX/UNIX environment ?

My environment is 100% Windows. All hosts are running Windows.

Hans

[Former Member]

Yes, Samba is for Unix environment. In this case you should use "net use" command to mount your Shared Folder to a Local Driver and then use it in File Adapter.

Like:

net use x:
host\folder /PERSISTENT:YES

Hope it helps

Regards