I have Tomcat 8 installed as a service on Windows Server 2012. The problem is that Tomcat can't access network drives. The tomcat manager shows that it is logged on as Local System Account. I've changed that to This account and selected the current user which i use to get logged in on Windows and this user can see the network drives. Can you tell me how to configure Tomcat so that it could be able to access network drives?
Windows – Tomcat cant access network drives on Windows
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In a domain environment, you can grant access rights to computer accounts; this applies to processes running on those computers as LocalSystem or NetworkService (but not LocalService, which presents anonymous credentials on the network) when they connect to remote systems.
So, if you have a computer called MANGO, you'll have an Active Directory computer account called MANGO$, which you can grant permissions to.
Note: You can't do any of this in a workgroup environment; this applies only to domains.
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It can't access the network drives because it's running as
NT authority\Local System.NT authority\Local Systemdoesn't have network access, because it's local. Says so right in the name. (AndNT authority\Local Servicehas the same restriction, of course.)The equivalent of
NT authority\Local System, with network access, isNT authority\Network Service, so set it to run under that account.NT authority\Network Servicedoes not have a password, but should ignore any password you do provide, so you ought to be fine specifying anything, or nothing, depending on your application's behavior. (If your application requires a value for the password, you should be able to set it to anything and be alright.)