I have been unable to get the Data Gateway create any Connections in the web service that are not relative paths. From my understanding, I need absolute paths to connect to any data source on a different server than the Gateway server. The documentation also suggests that 1) I should not put my SQL Server on the same server as my Gateway and 2) I should be able to connect to a different server from the Gateway server in order to fetch the SQL Server data.
My current solution is to replicate the file paths I use on the Gateway Server on my Desktop version before I upload it to the web service. Example Path to fetch a folder:
C:\DATA\DIM Tables
I've only been able to get it to work by having the same file path on both the gateway server and my laptop.
I expected the data gateway connections to work more like this:
C:\DATA\DIM Tables (relative path on my desktop)
maps to
\\datagatewayserver.domain\d$\DATA\DIM Tables (absolute path on my gateway server)
I have sensitive data that I need to connect to with my gateway that should not be present on my laptop.
I have also needed to use the service account I use to run the data gateway as my credentials with creating a Connection in the web service. While this is not preferable, it is manageable, unlike the above issue.
Please let me know if I have posted this in the wrong forum, and thanks in advance for any clarity anyone can provide