FileSystemWatcher UNC Path Invalid

[greg_slavin]

I'm attempting to use the FileSystemWatcher class to monitor a folder
on a remote server. My app is running as a Windows service, currently
on an XP machine, but it will be on Server 2003 in production.
Everything works fine when I set the Path to a local drive (i.e.
"C:\Test"). However, when I attempt to set the Path to a UNC path to
my remote folder (i.e. "\\servername\share" with an actual server and
share name of course), I receive an error stating that "The directory
name \\servername\share is invalid."

I have read many posts and articles by others with this same issue.
The common response is that they don't have the proper security
settings for the service. I had checked and triple checked that for my
service, however, and my service is running with a domain account that
has Full-Control access to the directory in question. Does anyone have
any other ideas about what might be causing this problem? Any advice
would be appreciated...

Thanks,
Greg

 

[Guest]

Perhaps the following will give you somewhere to look for a possible problem
accessing the network resource.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823659