How can I tell what user account is being used by a service to access a network share on a Windows 2008 server?

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Published on 2012-06-30T01:21:51Z Indexed on 2012/06/30 3:17 UTC
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I've got a third-party app/service running on a Windows 2003 SP2 server that is trying to fetch something from a network share on Windows 2008 box. Both boxes are members of an AD domain. For some reason, the app is complaining about having insufficient permissions to read/write to the store. The app itself doesn't have any special options for acting on the authority of another user account. It just asks for a UNC path.

The service is running with a "log on as" setting of Local System account.

I'd like to confirm what account it's using when trying to communicate with the network share. Conversely, I'd also like more details on if/why it's being rejected by the Windows 2008 network share. Are there server-side logs on 2008 that could tell me exactly why a connection attempt to a share was rejected?

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