DICOM import fails, crashing the ClearCanvas services, if you attempt to import files from a mapped network drive.  I rebooted the PC, started up ClearCanvas and checked to see that services had indeed started, then remapped the drive and tried to import again and the problem was reproducible.

I don't know if this makes any difference, but the mapped drive was accessed using different user credentials than the user that was logged in and using ClearCanvas.  CC was running as an ordinary user and the mapped drive was accessed using the credentials of the remote PC's local administrator account.  The operating system that was being used was Vista.

To prove that there was not an issue with the DICOM files, I copied the folder from the mapped drive to the local machine's desktop and then tried importing the files from the desktop.  This worked without any problems.

did you try giving the workstation service the proper credentials to access the network resource?

I didn't try messing with the credentials of the CC service.  I just used the built-in functionality of Windows to map the drive.  It's accessible from Explorer.  I didn't pursue it further since the workaround of copying to the local disk worked.

It is entirely the development team's decision whether or not this is a use case they want to support.  I just filed the bug report so they would be aware of the issue's existence.

Thanks, this bug has been around for a while (ticket here).  We did recently decide that if we have time to do it, we would fix it for our fall release, because it is very annoying.

All the best,

Stewart

This may be obvious, but it also fails if you use a UNC path, rather than a mapped drive.