Manage Logon Credential for accessing network shares in NT service mode

TurboFTP Sync Service in NT service mode is running under the LocalSystem account, which is restricted to operations on the machine on which it is installed but has no logon credentials associated with it, and therefore has no rights to access any network objects. If you need to access a network share in a scheduled task running as NT service, the Sync Service needs appropriate logon credential. Otherwise, when the task is executed, an error 'Local folder 'xxx' does not exist' will occur.

Fig. Dialog for managing network logon accounts

To do so, first set up a list of logon accounts in TurboFTP. Open dialog 'Credentials for Sync Service' through [Tools] menu. Here you can store account names and passwords for Sync Service to use to access the network share.

(IMPORTANT: Although TurboFTP stores the credentials in a highly secure fashion, for sake of maximum security, we suggest you select the option 'Do not store password on computer', so that the password is cached in system memory only while TurboFTP Sync Service is running. Each time you hit the Close & Save button in the Credentials for Sync Service dialog while Sync Service is running, you will be prompted to enter password for each account in use if it is missing.

In addition, we suggest you create an account for use of Sync Service, which has only the access rights you need to get the job done. Such an account you can delete it any time.)

Second, assign the logon account to the schedule task. Go to [Schedule Task Settings | Advanced] use the Logon Account drop-down list to select the account you want.

Now your schedule task is ready to run under the selected logon account which entitles it to access network folder as the Local folder in [Schedule Task Settings | General]. Note that when Local folder refers to a network share it must be in UNC format, e.g. \\server\path. Don't use network mapped drive letter.

Entries in the credential list are displayed in UPN format, user@DNS_domain_name. If you don't specify the domain name when creating an entry, it will then be defaulted to ".", which means the account will be validated using only the local account database.