UNC error: XXXXXXX is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Access is denied.
Have you ever received the following error when you tried to access a UNC path?
XXXXXXX is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Access is denied.
I found that if I logged into some of our production servers, I was unable to connect to a UNC path on the file server (a different machine), even though I was able to access these resources locally. The only difference I could find was that in order to access the production servers I had to use a different login than my local login (e.g. my local login had acess to the file share, but not the login I used for the production boxes). And, as I do not have administrative rights in this domain (nor were any administrators available to assist) I couldn’t change the rights to the file server to give my production user access.
So, I needed to find a way to access the file share as my local account. Unfortunately, I couldn’t log into the production server with my local account (a good thing, actually), and I couldn’t get Explorer.exe to runas my local account while on the server.
Then I decided to try and mount the share as a driver. Here are the steps I took:
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Opened up My Computer, the click Tools –> Map Network Drive …
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For the folder, specify your UNC share. Then, instead of clicking finish, click the “Connect using a different user name”.
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In the Connect As screen, specify your local account that has the ability to access the UNC share.
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Click OK, then Finish.
These steps mount the UNC share using your local account. As a result, I was able to access the file server on the production server, which I previously hadn’t been able to do.
If you find yourself in a similar situation, these steps may provide you with a temporary work around.
I hope this helps!
