Change NzbDrone service from System account to User account in Windows 8.1?

Help & Support
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I found the following instructions on the Wiki for Windows XP but I can’t figure out how to do this on Windows 8.1. Anybody know how?

Why can’t NzbDrone see my files on a remote server?

This can be for various reasons, but the most common is, NzbDrone is running as a service, which causes one of two things:

NzbDrone runs under the SYSTEM account by default which doesn’t have access to protected remote file shares.

Solutions:

Run NzbDrone’s service as another user that has access to that share How to change a service’s user account http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sys_srv_logon_user.mspx?mfr=true

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Open services.msc or View Local Services from the start screen (they are both the same thing).

3

Thanks Markus. I changed the service to my user account but I still get the “Missing root folder: Z:\TV” error message. Drone can’t see the network drive.

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Network drives for serives are very unreliable (it comes down to how Windows mounts the network drive. As covered in the FAQ, you can either nopt run drone as a service (use the startup folder instead) or use the UNC path. I’m not aware of any other way to get it working.

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Well it is certainly unpredictable. After I restarted the system it seems to be working properly. We’ll see if it continues but it’s good for now.

Thanks again.