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Dear
First of all thank you in advance for the support in solving my problem.
The problem is as follows. previously I had a personal gateway and I was doing great, however, I migrated to a standard gateway which I had a problem with the credentials of data sources of excel files, access, etc. that are located on a local server. these files have no windows credentials associated with them since the windows user does not have a password, he only has one user. however, it always asks me to place a username and password and I have already tried with all the possible ones and I have not been able to find the solution
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excel files, access, etc. that are located on a local server
Big Red Flag. Don't do that. Put the Excel files on a Sharepoint/OneDrive. Do not use Access as a data source. You really don't want to have to install anything smelling of 32 bit on your gateways.
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