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Blue_BIGuy
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Add Excel Data source in on-premise gateway

I have two excel files one available at my desktop, other one is at shared drive. For each of these two file I need to add a data source in on-premise Data gateway, but getting error. I have tried my windows id with domain name as well as without domain name it does not work. 

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Blue_BIGuy
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Thanks @timg  and @arvindsingh802 , both your answers helped... I have installed personal gateway and it worked for files that are available at my machine... Whereas to refresh data from files that are available in shared drive I have used SharePoint online. 

timg
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Hi,

Can you confirm whether the gateway is installed on your pc, or somewhere else? If it is not installed on your own pc it will not be able to access files that are only accessible from your pc. If this is the case, you could install a personal gateway on your pc to enable your local files to be refreshed as well. 

If you do already have the gateway correctly installed on your pc and it is still returning the error, you could try changing the full path like mentioned in the solution to this question: Solved: Re: My source is now in shared folder which gatewa... - Microsoft Power BI Community 

Hope that helps.

Regards,

 

Tim 





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arvindsingh802
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You have to use network path to register local file connection in gateway.

 

I would suggest to use SharePoint/OneDrive folder that will not require Gateway connection.

 

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