# Can't backuping Network drive **URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/cant-backuping-network-drive/7981 **Category:** Uncategorized **Created:** [September 8, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/cant-backuping-network-drive/7981 "2019-09-08T05:00:34Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678) #### Post date: [September 10, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/cant-backuping-network-drive/7981/2 "2019-09-10T19:33:13Z")
Welcome to the forum @forcam48 Are you running Duplicati as a Windows service? That doesn’t see the drives the users do, and fixing that is problematic according to Microsoft. [UNC source with credentials?](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/unc-source-with-credentials/5085/3) suggest [Active Directory can help](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/unc-source-with-credentials/5085/7), but do you have it available, or are you just having people type in credentials, maybe with Credential Manager help? [Services and Redirected Drives](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/services/services-and-redirected-drives) is Microsoft information. If you’re not a service, then your life probably gets easier, however you still need to find some way to get the share set up, perhaps using a [–run-script-before](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/06-advanced-options/#run-script-before). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/cant-backuping-network-drive/7981)._