Re: [Summary-Talk] Logs on Windows shared folders

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, Summary can read logs on UNC shares under Windows. Anything you can
make a shortcut to Summary will be able to read so long as the user that
Summary is running as can access the share without having to enter a
name/password specifically to access the share.

If Summary is running as a service it runs as the local system account
by default. In a typical network configuration that account won't have
access to shares. You can get around this by setting the user Summary
should "log on as" on the Services control panel to someone who does
have permission to access the shares. After changing that setting you
need to stop the Summary service and start it again, or restart the
machine, for the change to take effect.

Good Luck
Jason


Jason Heinrich wrote:
> - Summary Plus running as a Windows 2003 service.
> - Two shortcuts in "logs" folder pointing to other folders of logs:
>    -- One is a local folder.
>    -- The other is a shared folder on a Windows file server.  This
>       uses a UNC path (\\Server\Folder\etc.).
> 
> When I process logs, the only content in Summary is from the local logs. 
>   It appears that none of the logs in the shared folder are even being
> recognized, as they don't show up in the "Log Files" report or anywhere 
> else I've looked.  Is Summary able to read logs on UNC shares?

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