Oh gee. Now it decides to work, and I didn't do anything since when I first posted this. Frustrating to know that things "fix itself" without knowing what...

The concept makes sense. When I check the services, my SQL Server is logged on as local system account. When I check the folders/files, SYSTEM has all permissions....

Anyone?

I'm not quite seeing the answer here. I see that the SQL Server account may not have read access to the file on the local machine, but what I...