windows service problem

[dinger2121]

Hello,
I am creating a windows service that pulls data from an existing web service. When I run the code I created from a windows application, everything works fine.
However, when I build and install the windows service, I am not able to connect to the web service anymore. It tells me connecting to the server machine failed.
Does anyone have any idea why that might be happening?
Thanks

 

[dinger2121]

I think it was an error regarding trying to use a mapped drive vs. a UNC. I made the change to UNC and it seemed to work correctly.

Thanks

 

[jmeckley]

your domain account has the drives mapped. so it knows how to translate [tt]k:\my_directory\my_file.ext[/tt] to [tt]\\the_server\c$\\my_directory\my_file.ext[/tt]. a windows service has no knowledge of mapped drives. it requires the full UNC path ([tt]\\the_server\c$\\my_directory\my_file.ext[/tt]).

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.