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Please assist in resolving the HOMEPATH error during app deployment attempt below:
C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk reload deploy-server
An error occurred: Could not determine user's home directory because HOMEPATH shell variable is not set.
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Somesoni2's comment above revealed the correct procedure to resolving this error on Windows. From my reply above:
SET HOMEDRIVE=C:
SET HOMEPATH=\Users\Andrew
Clears the error for:
splunk reload deploy-server
And enables the authentication to proceed.
C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk reload deploy-server
Reloading serverclass(es).
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Somesoni2's comment above revealed the correct procedure to resolving this error on Windows. From my reply above:
SET HOMEDRIVE=C:
SET HOMEPATH=\Users\Andrew
Clears the error for:
splunk reload deploy-server
And enables the authentication to proceed.
C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk reload deploy-server
Reloading serverclass(es).
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Nope. Just gives the same error message. Idk how it can tell you that HOMEPATH is not set when I just set HOMEPATH
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Can you try the steps mentioned here? (see the comments as well under answer)
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/35308/cleaning-indexes-not-working.html
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SET HOMEDRIVE=C:
SET HOMEPATH=\Users\Andrew
Clears the error for:
splunk reload deploy-server
And enables the authentication to proceed.
C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk reload deploy-server
Reloading serverclass(es).
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