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Shared folder for Content Library across multiple servers

KT
KokChuan Tay
GRID Communications Pte Ltd

I have 2 Deployment Servers and 1 Management Server, and to use Content Library, according to what I can see on the documentation, the services on these machines need to be able to "access the specified storage path".

https://www.soti.net/mc/help/v14.2/en/console/data/contentlibrary/configuring.html

I was able to get it to work when I map a shared folder as a drive and grant read/write access to everyone, but i would really like to restrict access to only 1 specific ID.

To grant read/write to a specific ID, I had to use Active Directory. This is because the MS and DS services are not able to recognize local users defined on a remote machine.

I also tried mapping a FTP folder, but it gives me a network location, not a drive, and the Content Library rejects network location.

Can someone who has gotten this working share on how the services can "access the specified storage path" and whether AD is a necessity.

Thanks.

7 years ago
Android
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RC
Raymond Chan
7 years ago (edited 7 years ago)

Are you interested in sharing right for administrator putting files to the content library or for content consumer reading the content library?

What the documentation at

   https://www.soti.net/mc/help/v14.2/en/console/data/contentlibrary/configuring.html

means is that the Windows admin/user account used to install the DS or MS should have access to the specified storage path of the content library.

Any MobiControl administrator with content library management rights can change what contents are accessible by what MobiControl device-groups/devices by targeting the corresponding content library rule to required device-groups/devices.  AD account and group are not options for filtering the target in these device groups.

If your goal is to limit certain files to be accessible to particular MobiControl user(s) based on AD account/group  (rather than based on the device. This should be the case for shared work devices) , then you probably need to use Soti Hub.

KT
KokChuan Tay
7 years ago (edited 7 years ago)

Hi Raymond,

Thanks for your answer.

I'm interested in the access rights that the windows service running the MS and DS need to be able to access this storage. I'm not looking at access control for different device groups.

The services are "MobiControl Management Service" and "MobiControl Deployment Server" and they log on as "Local System" by default, and I'm not able to get them to read from a mapped drive which is shared to a specific windows OS user, unless I'm using AD to manage the Windows server.

I would like to know if AD is required for the windows server, or is there a way for the services running on different machines to see the same storage path (which must be a drive, Content Library rejects network location) without AD? I would prefer not using AD, if possible.

RC
Raymond Chan
7 years ago

Just log in to your Microsoft server host system with the account you install MobiControl in the first place, and configure your network file system such that you can access your desired shared file folder for content library with this account.

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