dba0419 (8/17/2012)

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Hi,

I am using Windows Authentication to send email using sp_send_dbmail.

Sending email works if I do not try to add a remote attachment. It also works if I try to send email with a local attachment (on the SQL Server machine). It works for remote attachments (as \\remote_server\share_name\test.txt) **if** I am connected to SQL Server as a sysadmin (Windows Authentication test logon in the sysadmin role). However, if I try sending email with a remote attachment as a non-administrative user, the attachment fails.

The error message I receive is:
Msg 22051, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Failed to open attachment file '\\ remote_server\share_name\test.txt'. Access denied.

The Windows Authentication test logon is in the DatabaseMailUserRole Database Role and has full control of the remote share. It would appear there is some SQL Server permission setting that I'm missing to allow any user to add remote attachments. Obviously I can't just give everyone sysadmin rights on the server in order to let them include attachments in e-mail. Can anyone shed some light on this?

I am running SQL Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) on Windows 2008 R2 Server (64-bit). Also the Windows Authentication test login I am using has full control of the remote share.

Thanks!
DV

dba0419 (8/17/2012)

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Thanks Lynn. However, the Windows Authentication test login I am using has full control of the remote share (read, write, create, delete).

dba0419 (8/17/2012)

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There is only 1 login being used (for testing this issue) and that login has full control of the network share and is in the DatabaseMailUserRole Database Role.

Example:
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @profile_name = 'DatabaseGoogleMailProfile',
@recipients = 'xyz@abc.com',
@subject = 'TESTING2',
@body = 'This is a new test message2.',
@file_attachments = '\\remote_server\share_name\test.txt'
go

When I grant the 1 login that I am using for testing SA rights in SQL Server I can attach and send files from a remote share.