I thought I had my program working but now that did not seem to be the case.

I am trying to write from the server to a shared drive which we have set as
an H: drive.

When I run my web page from my local machine (VS) it writes correctly to the
H: drive.

But when I run it off the Server (which also has access to the H: drive it
says it can't find it.

For example, this is the path I am trying to use to write out my csv file:

H:\SHARE\Reports

But when I try to open it I get:

Could not find a part of the path
'H:\SHARE\Reports\043_051909_083109_Discrepancies.csv'.

Is there something I have to do in IIS to allow it to write to the folder?

Thanks,

Tom

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>> I am trying to write from the server to a shared drive which we have set
>> as an H: drive.
>>
>> When I run my web page from my local machine (VS) it writes correctly to
>> the H: drive.
>>
>> But when I run it off the Server (which also has access to the H: drive
>> it says it can't find it.
>
> I've already explained this...
>

But I had already sent this before I saw your explanation.

> It works on your local machine because your local machine has the shared
> folder in question mapped as a network drive. To get this to work on the
> webserver, you will either have to create the same mapped network share,
> or reference the folder explicitly via its UNC path...

Also, as mentioned, my server has the same mapping:

H:/

Which as a folder Share which has a folder Reports.

And I access the drive like:

fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create,
FileAccess.ReadWrite);
csvFileWriter = new StreamWriter(fs);

Where fileName is:

fileNameOut = @"H:\SHARE\Reports\file.csv;

So you are saying my server code should be able to write to this share as
long as the Server has access?

I just went on the Server, accessed the folder from Windows Explorer and put
a folder and a file in it and it worked fine - so the permissions are there.
H:\SHARE\Reports

Thanks,

Tom

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> Mark Rae
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Hi,

> Also, as mentioned, my server has the same mapping:
>
> H:/
>

This is not the server this is YOUR profile. Mapped drive are tied to a
specific user profile, they are not a server wide setting. For a web
application, I would strongly recommend using UNC names
(\\servername\share\name\path\file.txt) ...

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Patrice

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>> I am trying to write from the server to a shared drive which we have set
>> as an H: drive.
>>
>> When I run my web page from my local machine (VS) it writes correctly to
>> the H: drive.
>>
>> But when I run it off the Server (which also has access to the H: drive
>> it says it can't find it.
>
> I've already explained this...
>
> It works on your local machine because your local machine has the shared
> folder in question mapped as a network drive. To get this to work on the
> webserver, you will either have to create the same mapped network share,
> or reference the folder explicitly via its UNC path...
>
The UNC path was what I needed to do.

I hadn't realized that the Mapping I did while logged on wouldn't apply to
the website which is running as a service.

That would also explain why it works when running out of VS. In that mode,
I am logged on so the mappings would apply.

Thanks,

Tom

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> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVP
> http://www.markrae.net

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> Hi,
>
>> Also, as mentioned, my server has the same mapping:
>>
>> H:/
>>
>
> This is not the server this is YOUR profile. Mapped drive are tied to a
> specific user profile, they are not a server wide setting. For a web
> application, I would strongly recommend using UNC names
> (\\servername\share\name\path\file.txt) ...
>
That was it. Mark had also mention it but I hadn't tried it yet. I tried
the first thing he mentioned which was creating the mapped share on the
server.

That actually makes sense now that I look at it.

Works perfectly now on my server.

So, just out of curiosity, how would you map a drive for the server (not
that I would, just curious) - or can you.

Thanks,

Tom

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