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I'm trying to connect to a remote password protected shared folder from a Windows service, which runs as LocalSystem account. It seems that the LocalSystem account is unable to directly access password-protected network shares using WNetAddConnection2() or similar calls. Can anyone confirm this? I've read that impersonating an administrator user might be the way to go. I've tried using LogonUser() and ImpersonateLoggedOnUser() before WNetAddConnection2(), it appears that the mount of the network path succeeds, but then actual accesses (e.g. enumerating of files in remote folder) fail. Any

Are there any libraries available that will allow me to read from and write to a Windows Fileshare given a UNC path from Java on Linux. It's trivial on a windows box itself, and I'm aware of smbclient approaches, but I'm looking to do it by dropping in a library. Thanks. Have a look at jcifs . It sounds like what you are looking for. From the jcifs site: JCIFS is an Open Source client library that implements the CIFS/SMB networking protocol in 100% Java. CIFS is the standard file sharing protocol on the Microsoft Windows platform (e.g. Map Network Drive ...). This client is used extensively in

The easiest way to check if a path is an UNC path is of course to check if the first character in the full path is a letter or backslash. Is this a good solution or could there be problems with it? My specific problem is that I want to create an System.IO.DriveInfo-object if there is a drive letter in the path. Since a path without two backslashes in the first and second positions is, by definiton, not a UNC path, this is a safe way to make this determination. A path with a drive letter in the first position (c:) is a rooted local path. A path without either of this things (myfolder\blah) is a

I'm running PowerShell in a Windows 7 x64 virtual machine. I have a shared folder on the host mapped as a network drive (Z:). When I run PS normally I can access that drive just fine, but if I run it "as administrator" it tells me: Set-Location : Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'Z' does not exist. At line:1 char:13 + Set-Location <<<< Z: + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Z:String) [Set-Location], DriveNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DriveNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetLocationCommand How do I access network drives as administrator? In the end the fix was simply

I have mapped a network drive to a computer in my home network. Now I am trying to access it via PHP - I did this quick test: echo opendir('Z:\\'); This gives me: Warning: opendir(Z:\) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No error in C:\wamp\www\webs\tester-function.php on line 3 What have I done wrong here? I don't want my users typing in the UNC path so is there a way to get the UNC path for them and maybe that will work when I try to access it? This is possible in Microsoft languages but I am not sure how to get PHP to do this - maybe using a cmd.exe command? Please note, the mapped

How can I check if a UNC Path is available? I have the problem that the check takes about half a minute if the share is not available : var fi = new DirectoryInfo(@"\\hostname\samba-sharename\directory"); if (fi.Exists) //... Is there a faster way to check if a folder is available? I'm using Windows XP and C#. Pat How's this for a quick and dirty way to check - run the windows net use command and parse the output for the line with the network path of interest (e.g. \\vault2 ) and OK . Here's an example of the output: C:\>net use New connections will be remembered. Status Local Remote Network -