I was setting up a OCS R2 installation when I got this message when creating the pool:
“Unable to access database file location”. Hmm. The disk and folder I specified was there, no doubt about it. The back-end server and the Front End was on different subnets, so at first I thought this was a firewall problem. The next step was to check if this was a permissions problem – gave my user full access on the SQL server, full control on the database file folders, set my user as local admin, gave the SQL Server service account full control one the catalogs – but no change, still the same error. Continue reading →