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

[Jason Heinrich <jheinrich@xxxxxxxx>]

You know, I have to deal with that on all our Oracle databases that 
access network shares as well.  I should have thought of it.  Thanks for 
the reminder.

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Jason Heinrich
Oracle Database Administrator
Pensacola Christian College


> From: Jason Linhart <jason@summary.net>
> Reply-To: <summary-talk@lists.summary.net>
> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:09:35 -0400
> To: <summary-talk@lists.summary.net>
> Subject: Re: [Summary-Talk] Logs on Windows shared folders
> 
> 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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