[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Installing a package from a password-protected UNC share

[Andrea Campi < >]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Jesse Campbell < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

what about turning off the security policy described in this article?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2012/04/18/task-scheduler-error-a-specified-logon-session-does-not-exist.aspx

the net use command is creating a stored credential, which would normally only work when applied to a logon session.

That's an excellent idea! Our googling hadn't turned that one up :)

> another option would be to run the service as a real user instead of one of the service accounts, though i don't remember the steps to make that happen :)

Yeah, that's one of options we were considering…

It still feels pretty odd that we need to do this manually; surely somebody else has had this problem?

I.e. chef-client::service should probably take care of this.