📄️ Mapping a Network Drive
Windows makes it possible to map drives on network servers to local drive letters so they can be accessed by users as if they were a local drive. The problem, however, is that Windows is not very consistent about how it handles such mapped drives when accessed from a Windows Service, such as the Ignition Gateway. When the service is started manually, the drives will be available, but when the system is rebooted, the service will no longer be able to access them. There may be users that wish to read or write data in Ignition using shared drives, and don't want to manually set up shared drives each time.