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Accessing data on a network
It is very possible that WSI data is not stored on the local drive, but on a shared (high-capacity) storage device. There are several reasons why this may be the case:
PMA.core therefore lets your map root-directories on a (shared) network drive. A UNC-path to a networked directory looks like \\servername\sharename\dir\subdir\. There are three conditions for this:
If no immediate access is possible for the share, you may specify impersonation information (which should be provided to you by the system administrator who's responsible for the machine that you're trying to reach). Impersonation information is verified, and the root-directory may only be created if impersonation is successful.
You must specify a domain. If no domain-name was given to you (e.g. on a Samba-share), you may enter “.” as a default domain.
When a UNC share does not exist, the following error message is displayed:
Note that you can only map network locations through their UNC path. PMA.core does not allow mapped (network) drives to be referenced directly. If \\servername\sharename\ is mapped as drive X:, you can not create a root directory with the path reference x:\dir\subdir\. The reason for this is twofold: