directory.exist() fails on shared folders

[Guest]

Through an ASP.Net page I want to browse a shared folder. So i used
directory.exist(\\machinename\sharename) but it returns false even if the
directory exist. please help me

 

[Alex Homer]

I seem to remember reading that this is by design - I found the same thing.
It only returns true for a local physical folder. Supposedly a shared folder
might only exist temporarily, because the target machine might disconnect or
shut down.

 

[Guest]

No Alex Homer,

I have a shared folder. Server is always on. But still it returns false. I
heard that some impersonation work will solve the problem. But i donno how to
implement this.

 

[Alex Homer]

I wasn't suggesting that *your* shared folder might not exist. I was just
repeating what I read about this issue some time ago. My experiences testing
this method returned the same result as you are getting.

 

[Guest]

been there done that Alex, no worries
in the past, i was playin with FileIO and i had a problem writing to a
shared foder, i need to go back to my code and see if it had some thing to do
with this; that's if i still have that code ;-)