Network Drive issue

[NguyenHoangMinhkkkk]

Hi, i'm facing a problem with network drive and pm2

i wrote an NextJs App, using FS for reading files.
and the problem occurs when my App try to read file from a Network drive in windows.

const fs = require('fs')
fs.readFileSync("Z:\Folder\data.txt")

"Z:\" is a network drive

in development, fs works as normally, but release for pm2 service to run, fs cannot read the file path and said file not exist.
pm2 and my App working fine with local drives like "C:\"

[kaeon]

Had the same issue, run the service as NETWORK SERVICE, otherwise it goes to network shares Anonymous https://stackoverflow.com/questions/510170/the-difference-between-the-local-system-account-and-the-network-service-acco/510225#510225

[niksbanna]

I am having same issue, I tried UNC path and changing pm2 logon account from LocalServer to user account.
but it didn't work out, do anyone have other solution?

[tuyen290]

I am having same issue, I tried UNC path and changing pm2 logon account from LocalServer to user account. but it didn't work out, do anyone have other solution?

i left nodejs and pm2 , then re-write the whole project by golang.

[niksbanna]

I dont have enough time, client wants this fixed in few days

[niksbanna]

either I dont use pm2, which is working fine and accesing the network drive but in this way I can't use pm2 features or any other service which provide auto restart or cluster management as they all will run as windows localService and dont have access to network drive.

[kaeon]

Hi @niksbanna did you try the Network Service account like I mentioned above?

If it helps, here are my notes from my own deployment:
Run cmd as admin # Do this for every pm2 command after to be able to do it as a service!
npm run configure #Re-run this after every node or npm update!!!!
npm run configure-policy
npm run setup

We had to run the service as NETWORK SERVICE and gave this user full permissions to c:\programdata\pm2 (because local service couldn't access network shares, it uses Anonymous) & give the AD computer account access on the fileshares it needs
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/510170/the-difference-between-the-local-system-account-and-the-network-service-acco/510225#510225 and #53
• Running as local system made cpu go to 100%
• After doing this pm2 started to run in local cmd windows again
• Ran the above install commands again (which made it switch to LOCAL SERVICE again)
• Set the service user again
• Restart service
All ok

[niksbanna]

I have done this

Set NETWORK SERVICE as the PM2 logon account

Granted full access to C:\ProgramData\pm2

Restarted the PM2 service

but I am still getting ENOENT: no such file or directory when accessing the M: drive or UNC path

[kaeon]

But did you also do my next steps? (gave ad computer account access, ran the commands, again, set service user again, ...). Also if computer account just got access via ad groups, it might need to reboot (or you can renew Kerberos tickets with admin cmd: klist -lh 0 -li 0x3e7 purge)

[niksbanna]

I have azure file share network drive and I have ites read and write access in user I am signed it,
but my npm dont have configure commands set up, what configure, configure-policy, setup command do??

I just restarted my server and tried but it didnt worked out
I tried changing pm2 logon account to my user account as well but still same problem.

[niksbanna]

I am still facing this issue, any fix? @kaeon

[niksbanna]

I resolved the issue, the IT DevOps guy gave permission to LocalService for that Network drive and it started working... didn't even need to change pm2 logon account.