Network Resource Properties

The Network Resource Properties contains settings for a network connection that needs to be made for your job.

See the Network Access topic for important information on network resources. When possible you should avoid using mapped drive letters, and use UNC paths instead.

Generally there is no need to explicitly connect network resources unless you need to assign a drive letter or specify user credentials other than those used by the job. If neither of these is the case, your tasks can refer to the resources by their UNC paths without explicitly making a connection.

Network path to connect

Specify the network path to connect to, using UNC notation. For example, specify \\prod1\data to connect to the data share on the prod1 server.

Assign drive letter

Check this option to assign a drive letter to the path you have selected. The drive letter will be mapped to the network connection for the duration of the job, allowing your tasks to refer to the resources using drive letters.

Drive letter mappings may fail for a variety of reasons. Therefore you should avoid using drive letters if possible. See the Network Access topic for more information.

User Account

Specify the credentials adTempus should use when making the network connection. If the account that the job is running under has access to the resource, there is no need to specify credential here: specify credentials only if you need to user a User ID different from the one the job is using.