Please note this is not the same as Administrator. To be able to test if Windows' local system account (on behalf of which Splunk is running) has access to UNC location we need to launch CMD (command prompt) running on behalf of local system account. You can do that by right-clicking the ZIP file and selecting Extract All. Extract the files from the PsTools.zip download. Its available for free from Microsoft at Sysinternals as part of PsTools. There is no built-in facility in Splunk to test accessability of the given data input and see if Splunk has access to it this moment or not. Download PsExec on the computer that will be running the remote commands. Download PsTools from the following link: PsTools Windows Sysinternals Microsoft Docs The tools are downloaded as a. Run the command psexec -i -s c:windowsregedit. The only solution for me was: Downloading PSTools. Close to impossible on Windows, but here's a solution. After I deleted a Group Policy printers kept coming back all over the place.

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