Registered Folders Don't Work - Always Wants to Copy

Question

I am attempting to publish a map service where I use some data from a folder I have registered with the server. The folders are located in different locations on their respective machines, it is NOT a shared drive. Maybe that's what is causing the issue here...but the folder registers and validates successfully:

Unfortunately, the publishing of the service always fails due to error 001488: "The service you are trying to publish includes data but the site has been configured such that data cannot be copied to the server." I purposely have that checked off on my server as I do not want any data to be copied to my server when publishing anything. What am I misunderstanding here?

MKF62 · Accepted Answer

Turns out it was a VPN/IP address issue. I work remotely and when I was logging into my work account to access my server, I have to go through our VPN. This makes the IP address moot, so when I was using the IP address as the "Publisher Folder Hostname", ArcGIS couldn't really resolve that. When I switched to using the device name (aka computer name) as the publisher folder hostname, I was able to publish my service successfully. In this case, my device name was something like "DEKSTOP-XX1234" but it could be pretty much anything. I found it by going to Settings > System > About in Windows 10.

I also switched the server folder path to a local path on the server since I didn't end up using a shared network path.