Accessing a remote path?

[Neural]

Hi, i searched on google for a resolution for this problem but i found
nothing interesting, i hope someone here will be able to help or at
least hint me.

The problem is simple: i'm trying to access a gile on a netwok PC,
addressing it with a UNC path (ie \\servername\share\file.txt). I use
the File object to do this, but i doesn't work because the remote PC
is on another domain, and i have to provide credentials for that
domain. I do have dose credentials, but i don't know how to use them
in c# code. Is there a way to do this? I seached in the System.IO
namespace, but found nothing...

Any help will be apreciated, thanks!

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Neural,

What you need to do is imitate that person on the other domain. To do
this, use the LogonUser API function (called through the P/Invoke layer).
Once you have a user handle, you can impersonate that user in the current
process by making a call to the Impersonate method on the WindowsIdentity
class. The documentation for the Impersonate method on the WindowsIdentity
class shows you how to do this.

Hope this helps.

 

[Neural]

What you need to do is imitate that person on the other domain. To do
this, use the LogonUser API function (called through the P/Invoke layer).

thank you Nicholas, i'll try it.

 

[Arild Bakken]

Hi, i searched on google for a resolution for this problem but i found
nothing interesting, i hope someone here will be able to help or at
least hint me.

The problem is simple: i'm trying to access a gile on a netwok PC,
addressing it with a UNC path (ie \\servername\share\file.txt). I use
the File object to do this, but i doesn't work because the remote PC
is on another domain, and i have to provide credentials for that
domain. I do have dose credentials, but i don't know how to use them
in c# code. Is there a way to do this? I seached in the System.IO
namespace, but found nothing...

Any help will be apreciated, thanks!


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NEURAL
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You could also use the WNetAddConnection2() API to authenticate just like
"net use" does. The drawback is that you can only authenticate as a single
user to any given server, so you need to WNetCancelConnection2() when done
with the file. This might also be a problem if mulitiple processes access
files on that server.


Arild

 

[Neural]

thank you Nicholas, i'll try it.

it worked! i had some trouble making it work, but now it's perfect!
thank you