Which Windows user does Jenkins run jobs on?

[ChrisK]

Hello,

I'm relatively new to Jenkins so bare with me if these question seems elementary. I have done some googling, but haven't be able to come up with anything that works.

I need to perform an xcopy command from our local Jenkins machine to another remote machine. However, to access the remote machine I need to log in with a username and password. So when Jenkins executes the command it says "Invalid drive specification". I have tried the xcopy manually on the Jenkins server and it works fine since I have saved the credentials for the remote machine. It's only when I use Jenkins to perform the xcopy that it fails.

Is there a way to specifically set which windows user Jenkins uses to execute jobs? I have tried changing the "LogOn" settings on the jenkins service and then restarting the service and it did not work. Or any other ways around this?

Here is the command I need to execute: 

xcopy "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\SilkTestClassic Git\workspace\zz_Reorg\*" "\\qaserver\AcceptTest\Jenkins\Source\" /c /s /y /i /h 

Here is my console output:

Started by user anonymous
Building on master in workspace C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\SilkTestClassic Git (qaserver)\workspace
Checkout:workspace / C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\SilkTestClassic Git (qaserver)\workspace - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@aee86f
Using strategy: Default
Last Built Revision: Revision 2d67c364f55926e5c1308806210ceba2918ace06 (origin/master)
Fetching changes from 1 remote Git repository
Fetching upstream changes from origin
Commencing build of Revision 2d67c364f55926e5c1308806210ceba2918ace06 (origin/master)
Checking out Revision 2d67c364f55926e5c1308806210ceba2918ace06 (origin/master)
[workspace] $ cmd /c call C:\Users\qatest\AppData\Local\Temp\hudson3277876910276465049.bat

C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\SilkTestClassic Git (qaserver)\workspace>xcopy "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\SilkTestClassic Git\workspace\zz_Reorg\*" "\\qaserver\AcceptTest\Jenkins\Source\" /c /s /y /i /h  
Invalid drive specification
0 File(s) copied

C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\SilkTestClassic Git (qaserver)\workspace>exit 4 
Build step 'Execute Windows batch command' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE

Thank you!

[Hau Vong]

 is "\\qaserver\AcceptTest\Jenkins\Source\" /c /s /y /i /h  a shared drive? if not, you can add c$, d$, etc depending on the drive letter. 

ex: "\\qaserver\c$\AcceptTest\Jenkins\Source\" /c /s /y /i /h  

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[ChrisK]

It's a shared folder from another machine.

[Hau Vong]

does the acct, that jenkins service is running under, have permission to the shared drive? 

[k.thi...@comcast.net]

Try changing the service over to running as the local system account.  Then you should be able to add permissions on the share for that entire machine name.

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From: "ChrisK" <chri...@caseware.com>
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Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 2:48:15 PM
Subject: Which Windows user does Jenkins run jobs on?