Problem with Domain Indexing and UNC paths

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I am having a problem setting up domain indexing on a Domino server running on Win2000. It comes up with the error message “cannot access File System” when trying to index a file system with an UNC path (eg. \servername\fileshare). However if I map the same path to a drive it has no problems. In the server log example below q: is mapped to \servername\fileshare.This basically rules out a security issue.

22/04/2005 01:42:33 PM Domain Indexer is indexing File System 'q:'
22/04/2005 01:42:33 PM Domain Indexer finished indexing File System 'q:'
22/04/2005 01:42:39 PM Domain Indexer cannot access File System ‘\servername\fileshare’

Has anyone successfully used UNC paths for Domain Indexing? UNC paths are actually provided as an example in the config dialog box, so I assume that means it should be possible.

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Subject: Problem with Domain Indexing and UNC paths

I assume that you are starting Domino as a service. Do you have the same results if you don’t start it as a service but launch it from an icon or the command line? If so, then I would suspect that you are encountering a limitation of the OS rather than of Domino.