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Asked: 2026-05-11T15:04:50+00:00

We have a problem in accessing content on a mapped network drive. We have

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We have a problem in accessing content on a mapped network drive.

We have a web application running on weblogic 8.1 on (Windows 2000 NT).

The application retreives images from a mapped network drive and displays.

Now we are moving our application onto a virtual machine (Windows 2003 SP1) hosted on Weblogic 10.3.

But on this new set up even though the network drive is mapped and available on the machine, the application can’t access it.

Are there any specific settings for mapping network drives on virtual machines?

Any help? Really struck with this.

Thanks in advance.

Jani.

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  1. Suggest you start troubleshooting by making sure that the web application process has the necessary permissions to access the network share.

    Perhaps you need to change the account that the web application is running under to a Windows domain user? Perhaps the app is now running as LOCALSYSTEM (which only has local privileges).

    If you cannot run the web app under a domain user account, you could try pass-through authentication: Create a local user on the web application server with the exact same user name and password as an account that can access the network share. Run the app under this local account.

    Edit:

    If the web app is configured to connect to the network share using drive mappings, try using UNC paths instead. For instance change m:\directory to \\server\share\directory

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