How do I give a compiled MATLAB script permission to operate on server folders?

Hi everybody,

I've got my MATLAB scripts which works totally fine as I run the script itself. As soon as I compile it the .exe seems not to have access on the servers folders where the script is ran from.

path=fullfile(path,'Results');
filepath0=fullfile(path,'*.txt');
fprintf('%s \n',path);

%%Data

%Open data
fprintf('read files \n');
files=dir(filepath0);
fprintf('list files \n');
fprintf(files.name);
fprintf('listed files \n');

When I run the .exe file in the same folder structure (for the relative paths) but on a local drive it work fine (path gets printed, files get listed). When I run the .exe on the server (the user has access but isn't admin) the path gets printed correctly but there is an error with printing "fprintf(files.name);" so it seems like the variable files is completely empty. I think there must be a problem with the permissions. As I say when I run it as the normal script from the very same server folder It work perfectly. How do I tell my exe file that the current user can access those network folders an read out my files?

Thank you a lot!

Benjamin

[Image Analyst]

I think that's an operating system question, not a MATLAB question.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You can't do

fprintf(files.name);

do this instead:

fprintf('%s\n', files.name);

[Benjamin]

Doesn't work either :/ fprintf(files.name) works in the normal script and lists all the textfiles in the folder "Results"...when I run the exe on a local drive fprintf(files.name) it works as well... just not in the compiled version on the server, so I think it must be about the permissions that the exe "thinks" it has

[Benjamin]

Even after I changed it to fprintf('%s \n', files.name) it doesn't list the files in this Results folder...it doesn't matter if I use the path with the server's IP address, with the server's name or with the mounted network drive

This is always the output

"\\129....\...\Results read files list files listed files"

[Image Analyst]

"path" is a reserved keyword. Try using the name "folder" instead of path and see if that helps.