I'm using SCCM 2012 SP1 to deploy Software Updates, Packages, and Applications. For all of these deployments, the source locations are on a network share (and not on a disk local to any of the SCCM servers). The SCCM services are using the local computer account (e.g., SCCMSVR$) to access to the network shares. If I grant the SCCMSVR$ account full control for the network share and then download the package content, SCCM downloads the content from the internet to that network share (i.e., the folder/file is created and populated) but the "Download Software Updates Wizard" returns an error: "The SMS Provider reported an error". In SMSProv.log is an error message: "*~*~Downloaded content specified iin package source directory is in wrong location~*~*"
If I change nothing in the package (app, update group, etc) and simply make the SCCMSVR$ account a member of the Administrators group on the windows system hosting the network share, then the download process completes without error and I can deploy the package/application.
Is there any reason why the SCCM server would require local admin rights on the system hosting the network share?
For complete info: In addition to giving SCCMSVR$ full control on the network share, I also gave it full access to the NTFS folder structure (obviously, that had no impact - but, I tried for completeness). There were no errors in any of the Windows logs on the network share system - and no dropped packets in the firewall logs.
Any ideas?
Larry Parker - University at Albany