# Mapping network drive confusion

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mapping-network-drive-confusion/88338>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [April 4, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mapping-network-drive-confusion/88338 "2024-04-04T11:28:07Z")\
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I've played with this and here's my the relevant lines from my working ignition.conf file:

```python
wrapper.share.1.location=\\<REDACTED>\Projects
wrapper.share.1.target=P:
wrapper.share.1.type=DISK
wrapper.ntservice.account=Ignition
wrapper.ntservice.password=<REDACTED>
wrapper.share.1.account=<REDACTED>
wrapper.share.1.password=<REDACTED>
wrapper.share.1.shutdown.unmap=TRUE
wrapper.share.1.startup.max_retries=2
wrapper.share.1.startup.retry_interval=10

```

For the ntservice account/password I used the local account of the username/password the Ignition service was running under (in my case it was a local account). For the share account, I connected to a domain (computer was not connected to this domain and even on a different network, so it was routed), but was in the form of `DOMAIN\username`

One note is that your share location cannot end in a backslash - even the Tanuki documentation mentions that this will break it. See: [wrapper.share.\<n\>.\* Properties - Java Service Wrapper](https://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/prop-share-general.html)

I also enabled the `wrapper.debug=TRUE` for testing and found in the logs the following (wasn't necessary to use debug for this, but when it wasn't working, this gave me the error - just make sure to comment it back out when done testing):

```python
INFO | wrapper | 2024/04/24 14:25:51 | Attempting to map the "\\<REDACTED>\Projects" share to "P:"...
INFO | wrapper | 2024/04/24 14:25:51 | Mapped "P:".

```

Once working, I just accessed the file such as `system.file.fileExists('P:\myfile.txt')`

Another note...this does NOT work in Linux. This seems to be Windows onlym and you must be using a separate account for the Ignition service (it won't work running as LOCAL SYSTEM).

> **[Mapping a Network Drive | Ignition User Manual](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/tutorials/tutorials-and-helpful-tricks/mapping-a-network-drive)**
>
> Learn how to make a network drive available to Ignition

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