Network service can't access network share under local system account

Question

Am running an application as a windows service but when i trying to run it under local system account my service is not able to access network share .but when i run it under a valid user account my service able to acees network share .. but o would like to run it under local system account ??

nd i can n't set full control for everyone on that network share and am on Windows NT machine

Answer 1

You shared drive is mapped to a user account with AD domain access. The network service account has no such access on the other server. Use a AD domain ID to map the shared drive or run the service under a user account.