Windows: network drives and running APL as administrator
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Windows: network drives and running APL as administrator
by AndyS|Dyalog on Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:40 am
One of those little security features of Windows which makes your life more, umm, interesting ..
If you have a network drive mapped, and then you run a process with administrator privileges, that process will not see the mapped drive - you will need to redo the drive mapping.
To do this in Dyalog APL:
That second, empty, argument is critical - without it the username and password prompt will not be visible, and you will have just caused your APL process to hang.
If you have a network drive mapped, and then you run a process with administrator privileges, that process will not see the mapped drive - you will need to redo the drive mapping.
To do this in Dyalog APL:
⎕cmd'net use u: \\devt\devt' ''
That second, empty, argument is critical - without it the username and password prompt will not be visible, and you will have just caused your APL process to hang.
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