Service not able to access a mapped drive.

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Hi All,

I have read in many forums that mapped drives are not accessible from a service as no user is logged on.

Question 1) I tried making my service as a log on - as some account and i had my network drive mapped in that very account. The service still cannot access it. Why?

Question 2) From the same sevice, i invoke another process. Under what user account will the process run?

Thanks

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