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Alexander Schmidt
Alexander Schmidt

Reputation: 5743

BuildAgent working directory in distributed environment

I've got a build controller running 2 Agents (Agent1, Agent2) on the same machine. I've installed another build agent (Agent3) on a different machine inside the same AD.

Now when it comes to Agent3 I get the error, that Agent3 can not access the share on \buildagentmachine\Build.

Agent1 and Agent2 have working directories: D:\Builds\$(BuildAgentId)\$(BuildDefinitionPath) (where D:\Builds is the local folder on the build controller which is shared via network).

Agent3's working directory is: $(SystemDrive)\Builds\$(BuildAgentId)\$(BuildDefinitionPath) on its local hard drive.

Now whats funny beside: On the build controller computer I get the following folders under D:\Builds:

Looks like Agent3 is putting all its stuff directly under \controller\Builds which means, write access is enabled for the agent.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 461

Answers (1)

Dylan Smith
Dylan Smith

Reputation: 22255

If the error is about accessing a share, are you sure it's not erroring out when the build tries to copy the build outputs to the build drop share? Make sure the user account that build agent 3 is configured to run as is the same as the one used for build agents 1 and 2. You can check this in the TFS Admin console on the build agent machines.

Upvotes: 1

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