Cannot find a part of the path Error

[Ben]

Hi All,
I know there have been previous posts with this topic but the issue for
most seems to be the security permissions on the shared drive. My
scenario is as follows :
I have IIS on local machine, I have code on a mapped drive in the
network.
I tried writing to a folder on the mapped drive and then also to a
folder in my C:, both give the same error "Cannot fnd a part of the
path". I gave the local folder FULL CONTROL to the user EVERYONE, still
doesnt make a difference.
My code is as follows :
try
{
FileStream File = new
FileStream(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["file_location"] +
System.DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString() + ".xml", FileMode.Append,
FileAccess.Write);
System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Write("Created the File
Stream");
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(File);
sw.WriteLine(a.OuterXml);
sw.Close();

}


catch(Exception e)
{
Response.Write(e.Message);
Response.End();


}


Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Arthur

 

[Guest]

Ben,
"Cannot find a part of the path..." is not a permissions exception, its a
file path syntax exception. Unfortunately, you haven't shown us what you have
stored in

AppSettings["file_location"] - so we can only guess what you've got in there.
Peter

 

[Jeff Dillon]

Perhaps the IIS user account doesn't have that mapped drive? Log locally
onto the machine as that user, and see for yourself!

 

[Ben]

Peter,
<add key="file_location" value="C:\Projects\MyProject\Xml\"/>

is the value for the file path, which i am able to browse to.
Thanks

 

[Jeff Dillon]

Originally you said you had a mapped drive..so this is a reduced test?

And this is directory is on the server, correct?

Response.Write the full concatenated path and filename and post here

Jeff

 

[Jeff Dillon]

Also, keep in mind you may need to escape the \ with two \\ in C#

 

[Ben]

I would like to make it work atleast for the non-mapped drive, the C:
drive is on my local machine, not on the server i was trying to map to.

C:/Projects/AdminReports/Xml/632937556787535301.xml

this is concatenated path+filename.
Thanks,
Ben

 

[Ben]

Added \\ instead of \ and still get the same error.

 

[Jeff Dillon]

It has to be on the server. This is a web page right? The code is executing
on the IIS server!

C:\Projects... has to be on the IIS server for the code you've shown.

And it's \ not /

 

[Ben]

Of Course ! That fixed it. Thanks a lot Jeff for you help with this.