We have a system in place called Windream which essentially emulates a windows share. I am being told that this system is being upgraded to a version that no longer supports older operating systems such as Windows 7, so we have to evaluate our existing systems to determine if we will have any compatibility issues.
My question is this: Internally, where are mappings to shared drives initiated in Ignition? I know they must be configured in ignition.conf, but if I am trying to determine whether ignition will be compatible with the new version, what info can I provide my IT dept? Is the mapping still handled by the OS, or is it by some libraries in the JVM?
Seriously consider not using mapped drive letters at all. Arrange for the Ignition service user to have credentials on the target server, and use compleye UNC paths everywhere. This approach doesn't suffer from failures to connect/reconnect when the target server is unavailable. (You must restart the entire Ignition service to reconnect mapped drives that break.)