NTFS issue

[amien]

i have an NTFS issue .. i have a user account that has full control over the folder and doesnt inherit rights.

when i user 'everyone' on that folder, i see a document, when i use the user acount (with the same rights) than i dont see the document. How can this be?

[Miguel_Angel_Baeyens]

Amien,

Does QlikView fail if you load using a mapped drive instead of the UNC path? That might be a work around.

Regards.

[amien]

well i mapped the drive. in explorer the drive is visible and accessable. . but then i go to QEMC .. i dont see that drive using [...] button . when i enter 'G:\Qlikview' . QEMC says that the drive doesnt exists.

so, the user have all permissions according to "Effective Permissions" .. when i login as the user in windows and use G:\Qlikview\....\1.QVW .. the file is accessable. The same location under \\ (UNC) is not accessable at all .. not even the root. Administrators blocked these and only can be access using G:.

If the path starts with \\ means that it's a shared folder. Permissions for shared folders are different than NTFS permissions. But in any case, the most restrictive of both will always apply. So go to the shared folder properties, Sharing tab, Advanced Sharing, (Win 2008) and check that permissions are fine and the number of simultaneous users is enough.

i think this is the issue .. but .. security policy doesnt allow me to change the sharedfolder permissions. and if the most restrictive of both would apply, than the user wont have access to that location.

A space (example : "Qlikview Save Files") in the UNC dir name shouldn't matter right?

"QlikView Server permissions" .. what kind of Server permissions?

[Miguel_Angel_Baeyens]

Amien,

If QEMC says the driver doesn't exist, then the account that doesn't have permissions may be the one the QlikView Server services are running under?

A space won't matter if the whole path in double quoted:

STORE Customers INTO "\\SERVERNAME\Resource Name\File.QVD";

By QliKView Server permissions I mean the account the services are running under. If this account is a local administrator, the services are likely to work fine, but whenever you get out of that computer (to a UNC path or mapped drive), Server may not be allowed to write or work properly.

Hope that helps.

[amien]

If QEMC says the driver doesn't exist, then the account that doesn't have permissions may be the one the QlikView Server services are running under?

but do i need to create the map drive while logged into the service account? because i'm now adding the mapped drive to the local admin account.

A space won't matter if the whole path in double quoted:

not even in the root path in QEMC? i assume no quotes there?

[Miguel_Angel_Baeyens]

You can add the mapped drive if you don't want (or you can't) use the UNC path.

If the QEMC allows you to select the path, it shouldn't be any problem with that. MY view? I never set other characters than ASCII in any of my paths (QlikView, webpages, shared folders, etc), probably because of my past in the UNIX and LInux world and the troubles -at the moment- to get a path with blanks or local characters.

Anyway, Windows accepts paths with spaces and that shoiuld work in QlikView if that does in Windows.

Hope that helps.

[#7]

Hi,

Mapped drives might be added only when you log in interactively with Remote Desktop. Whereas QEMC is a server process that runs in the background, and the environment is initialised differently.

Convince the the system admins to allow access to UNC paths for the service running QV .

-Alex

www.snowflakejoins.com