Why does my .NET application crash when run from a network drive?

Question

My .NET application fails when run from a network drive even when the very same executable runs perfectly fine from a local hard drive?

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Answer 1

All I had to do was mark the files Read Only (possibly unrelated) and give all permissions except Full Control to Authenticated Users. I was encountering this issue before I did that, when I had the network share only setup for Domain Users.

I discovered this workaround because neither the admin shares (\server\C$) nor my own PC's shares had this problem.

Edit: App is targeting .NET 3.5, no SP1 here (version 3.5.7283)