12.1 SAP Service to change account to write to networked folder?

[Former Member]

Hi,

My question is similiar to the following thread:

I have a networked drive I want to write a file to and do not know which service needs to be changed to use a service account that has access to the remote location. I thought it was SAP<SAP_ID>_97 since that was the only service using the .\SAPService<SAP_ID>.

However, when I changed that service to use an account that has write permission the remote directory and made the service account a member of the same groups as the SAPService account was, it was still unable to write? How would this be done? The SAPService<SAP_ID> account is local to the Netweaver box and so can't be granted access to the remote folder.

In 11.5, I could change the service ServletExec-xMII to use a service account that had networked access and then it would be able to write to the networked drive.

Thanks,

Kerby

Edited by: Kerby Johnson on Mar 19, 2010 1:18 AM

[Former Member]

Bump.

The Netweaver CE Installation guide says that the SAPService<SAPSID> is the user that is the Windows account to run the SAP system. This is a user that is local to the box that Netweaver is installed on and so can not be granted access to a remote file share.

How would I enable MII to write to a remote file share in 12.1?

In 11.5 I just changed the ServletExec-xMII service to use a different user that had access to the file share and the same MII permisions and that worked fine. What Is the equivalent method in 12.1?

Thanks for the help,

Kerby

[Former Member]

Hi Kerby,

not sure this will work but worth a try.

Assuming you are under windows 2003 you can mount a network drive to you computer. You won't require to get the NW account allocated to the remote folder but to a local folder. That should solve your problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889

Cheers,

Arnaud

[Former Member]

I guess you would also be able to just connect a network drive.

Cheers,

Arnaud

[agentry_src]

Also take a look at the FTP action blocks.

Mike

[Former Member]

Thanks Arnaud and Michael. I actually had looked at both of those methods, but since we are doing a migration from 11.5 to 12.1 on a different project of MII than what we have already done, the desire is to keep all the same functionality of 11.5 if possible.

Is it possible to do it with a service account/granting file access ala how 11.5 can do it with ServletExec or is an alternative method required?

Thanks for the help.

Kerby

[Former Member]

This worked when I granted the domain account SAPServiceMDT access to the networked folders.

Thanks