pc Perform Script on Server - Insert Picture

[PaulSamuelson]

I am trying to do an "Insert Picture" script step on a Server and not getting any results. The script works fine (but too slow for the volume of images) on a client. This seems like a perfect case for "Perform Script on Server" but it is not working.

 

The server is 13.0.3.300 on Windows 7. User Account Control is off.

 

The JPGs are on a file server. The server has access to the files. The drive is mapped exactly the same as a client.

 

The script provides the correct context (layout and find) for the import, but the server is not finding the images.

 

Is there something else I need to do on the server to make this work?

 

Thanks,

 

Paul Samuelson

[Wim Decorte]

"insert picture" is not a server-compatible script step.  Set your scriptMaker (lower left corner) to "server" and all the grayed-out steps are the ones you can not use.

 

Apart from that:

drive mapping is a user-space thing.  FMS runs as a service under the "local system" account (by default).  So it does NOT have access to files on a remote share.  Not unless you have changed the account that FMS runs under.

If you do change the account, you still would not use drive mapping because that implies that a user is actually logged into the OS.  Use the UNC name of the share itself (serverNameshareNamesomeFile.jpg) to avoid that vulnerability.

[PaulSamuelson]

That's too bad, but at least it explains my problem.

 

 

And the "local system" user issue explains a different problem I was having (and how I need to fix it).

 

Thanks!

 

Paul