# Filebeat prospector to be server location

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-prospector-to-be-server-location/83936>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 27, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-prospector-to-be-server-location/83936 "2017-04-27T20:34:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![filebeatfa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@filebeatfa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/filebeatfa)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-prospector-to-be-server-location/83936/1 "2017-04-27T20:34:51Z")

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Hi,  
i have the ELK stack running on my machine (Filebeat/ElasticSearch/Logstash/Kibana), i want to point the filebeat.prospectors in the filebeat.yml file path to be a network location. I have access to the path through windows explorer after putting in username/pw. The below format has not worked for me, how can i configure that? thanks in advance.

-\networkpath\application\logs\*.log

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-prospector-to-be-server-location/83936/2 "2017-04-28T14:36:02Z")

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Be aware that we strongly recommend agains using network drives: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/faq.html#filebeat-network-volumes](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/faq.html#filebeat-network-volumes) We recommend to install filebeat on each node directly.

- Which FB version are you using?
- How does the path look like if you use it in the powershell? Full path to one of the files.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-prospector-to-be-server-location/83936/3 "2017-05-26T14:44:45Z")

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