I was wondering if there is a way to connect to a shared drive without the pc being on..
Basically right now we are just using a .bat file with xcopy to move some files from A to B.. problem is that this is on a users machine.. so the machine has to stay on. Is there a way to use PA to copy from a shared drive \\drive\folder to another location so we dont have to have the pc on 24/7!?
Thanks!
not on the share drive, on a separate VM. Gateways don't play well with other applications on the same VM.
OK, so.. I need to convince my IT to install a gateway on the share drive.. lol this should be fun.
Thanks!!
Now, now. 🙂 Gateways come in two flavors, personal and standard. Both versions can be installed on a physical PC or on a VM but in general personal gateways are installed on someone's PC (which isn't on 24x7) and standard (enterprise) gateways are installed on a VM that is on 24x7.
right, but isnt the gateaway on my PC? so my pc would need to stay on? or am I being stupid? lol (dont answer that)
That is expected behavior. A gateway is required if the Azure service needs help seeing the on-premise data source (your file share , in this case). There's no magic involved here that would somehow allow you to avoid that.
yeah when I try to create a connection to the share \\drive\folder .. it wants a gateway. Thats where I am stuck.. our shared is on a cloud, but what connector do you use? the filesystem one wants a gateway...
either your network drive is in the public cloud, or you use a gateway.
how can a cloud flow connect to a network drive .. the connector is installed on the local PC isnt it?
we are talking about cloud flows here, right? They don't need a PC to be on. Unless your file share is on that PC?
... how do you connect it to a shared drive, but not have to leave the PC on? I know you can create a local connector on your PC... but thats not an option. Is there something I am missing?