Not able to Access Mapped Network Drive from Service

Hi All,

I am trying to access a mapped network drive from a service that I have created.

The service needs to create/delete folders/files on a network drive. When I tried to connect to a folder on mapped network drive (eg. N:\Storage that corresponds to \\FS1NS\SharedDir\), I get an error as "Could not find part of path N:\".

I tried running the service in the Administrators account but the same problem. The thing works if I directly access the network share
\\FS1NS\SharedDir\.

 Is there anykind of restriction on access to the mapped drives when tried from a service (it did work from a C# windows application).
The main purpose for doing this is becuase the service will be running on 2 different machine & will be ...