SharePoint Settings

Entering these credentials is optional for general SharePoint support, but required to enumerate site collections. For example, say you have two site collections:

http://sharepoint.example.com and

http://sharepoint.example.com/SeparateCollection.

Without entering credentials, if you create a volume pointing to http://sharepoint.example.com, you will not see a folder called SeparateCollection when enumerating the volume. The account needs to have Full Read access to the web application.

To give your account Full Read permission, follow these steps (for SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2010):

1. Open the SharePoint Central Administration.
2. Click on Application Management.
   
3. Under Web Applications click on Manage web applications.
4. Select your web application from the list and click on User Policy.
   
5. Select the checkbox of the user you want to give permissions to and click on Edit Permissions of Selected Users. If the user is not in the list, you can add him by clicking on Add Users.
   
6. From the Permission Policy Levels section, select the checkbox for Full Read - Has Full read-only access.
   
7. Press the Save button.