# Giving filebeat admin rights to read from fileshare
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/giving-filebeat-admin-rights-to-read-from-fileshare/334971
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [June 1, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/giving-filebeat-admin-rights-to-read-from-fileshare/334971 "2023-06-01T12:00:47Z")
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### Author:  [@\_Zeyad\_Elshater](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_Zeyad_Elshater)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/giving-filebeat-admin-rights-to-read-from-fileshare/334971/1 "2023-06-01T12:00:47Z")
Hi all, I have filebeat as a windows service, It supposed to read logs from a fileshare on my VM, which must be accessed using the admin account, when I log on the service of filebeat as the admin account it can't access the fileshare and can't read the logs,but when I open the powershell as admin, and run the command " ./filebeat.exe " , it can see the fileshare and successefully read the logs and send it to elasticsearch.
how to solve this issue without having to deal with powershell as I want to automate the process from ansible
by the way ansible is using the admin account to install and run the service of filebeat.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/giving-filebeat-admin-rights-to-read-from-fileshare/334971/2 "2023-06-29T14:01:32Z")
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