Newbie question

[Sabo, Eric]

We want to write an web page that would do the following:
1. Prompt for an username and password from our domain
2. Map to this username's network drive.

Can you use Dotnet framework to do this? Where is a good starting point?

Thanks,
Eric Sabo
NT Administrator

 

[Rick Strahl [MVP]]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish when you say map a drive for the
user? You mean give them open access to it like a regular mapped drive, or
allow a Web application to run from there (or access data there etc).

The former you can't do, the latter can be done... The easiest way to do
this probably would be to use Impersonation for your ASP.Net applications'
security setting. That way you can pass the security context down to the app
and based on that perform whatever system tasks you need to accomplish.
Username and password access could be controlled via file rights by giving
access to a specific group to the directory or individual set of pages.


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