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Data source for network drive using on-premises gateway
AFoulk,
How do you connect to these files in Power BI Desktop? If you use Excel connector in Power BI Desktop to connect to your files, please follow the guide in this similar thread to add all the Excel data sources within gateway.
However, if you use Folder connector in Power BI Desktop to connnect to your files, please add data source within gateway using Folder option.
Regards,
LydiaAfter speaking some more with our IT Manager, the problem was the link address. I was using the drive letter with the path following but it needed to begin with our server name first so it was the full technical path.
The worked for the gateway, then I discovered I had to update all of my individual sources accessing that drive to change to that full path as I had went in through "My Computer" and what I needed to do was actually paste the same path listed in the gateway. Now everything work and presents the ability to schedule refresh.
Super thrilled that is all squared away now!
Hello,
We've been searching for an answer for a while now and you seem to be the only one who has managed to configure this correctly.
So far we mounted the network disc on the GateWay machine and associated it with the letter G:\
When creating the gateway, we chose File and the full path : \xxxxxfsdtestfile.csv
We authenticate as the windows user who mounted the drive.
Could you give us more details on how you configured your disk and gateway please?
Hello, the username and password to access the network drive have to be the same as the windows user you are logged in.