Gateway Script Access to a Mapped Drive (Redundancy)

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Hi every one,

I have a script that runs on a scheduled Gateway Event and relies on accessing files located on a local drive of the server where the Ignition Gateway is running.

Now, with Ignition Redundancy enabled, if the system fails over to the backup server, the script can no longer access the local drive of the master server. To address this, I'm considering mapping a shared network drive on both servers so the script can access the files located on the mapped drive.

However, I came across the following documentation highlighting certain considerations when using mapped drives, particularly in the context of Windows services during startup.
Mapping a Network Drive | Ignition User Manual

I have two questions:

  1. Can Ignition scripts access mapped drives?
  2. If yes, could switching between the master and backup servers cause issues similar to those experienced during service startup (e.g., loss of mapped drive context)?

Thanks

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Gateway scripts cannot access to mapped drives - #6 by pturmel discusses some of the problems with network shares which you should be aware of.

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