Offline Drop Network Share with Authentication

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Hey,

Can’t seem to find any documentation on this… We are trying to use an offline drop and Azure Files (hosted network share effectively) which uses a set username and password to access the network share… How does a network path with authentication work with Octopus?

I can access the network share on the local Octopus server but trying to do a health check fails with:

Could not find a part of the path ‘\this.is.a.networkshare.addresst\folder’.

Ta

-Chris

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Hi Chris,

Thanks for getting in touch! I hope you are well :slight_smile:
I am sorry but Offline drops targets won’t work with drives that require authentication. It needs to be read-writable by the user that runs the Octopus service, and cannot need to authenticate.
You could attempt to write to a local directory and script a transfer with authentication.

Sorry if that wasn’t the news you were hoping for.
Vanessa

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Hey Vanessa (and everyone else).

Managed a work around… a little hacky but it does the job. We are using this to deploy to network share and an offline drop. We have a project that runs everytime the server boots up and then this allows us to do the above. Powershell script below:

$User = "Network Share Username"
$PWord = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "Network Password" -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $User, $PWord

New-PSDrive -Name Z -PSProvider FileSystem -scope Global -Root **network path** -Credential $Credential

If (Test-Path "Local Path"){
  cmd /c rmdir Local Path
}

New-Item -Path Local Path -ItemType SymbolicLink -Value Z: