How to provide user name and password when connecting to a network share

Question

When connecting to a network share for which the current user (in my case, a network enabled service user) has no rights, name and password have to be provided.

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Answer 1

For VB.lovers the VB.NET equivalent of Luke Quinane's code (thanks Luke!)

Imports System
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Imports System.ComponentModel

Public Class NetworkConnection
    Implements IDisposable

    Private _networkName As String

    Public Sub New(networkName As String, credentials As NetworkCredential)
        _networkName = networkName

        Dim netResource = New NetResource() With {
             .Scope = ResourceScope.GlobalNetwork,
             .ResourceType = ResourceType.Disk,
             .DisplayType = ResourceDisplaytype.Share,
             .RemoteName = networkName
        }

        Dim userName = If(String.IsNullOrEmpty(credentials.Domain), credentials.UserName, String.Format("{0}\{1}", credentials.Domain, credentials.UserName))

        Dim result = WNetAddConnection2(NetResource, credentials.Password, userName, 0)

        If result <> 0 Then
            Throw New Win32Exception(result, "Error connecting to remote share")
        End If
    End Sub

    Protected Overrides Sub Finalize()
        Try
            Dispose (False)
        Finally
            MyBase.Finalize()
        End Try
    End Sub

    Public Sub Dispose() Implements IDisposable.Dispose
        Dispose (True)
        GC.SuppressFinalize (Me)
    End Sub

    Protected Overridable Sub Dispose(disposing As Boolean)
        WNetCancelConnection2(_networkName, 0, True)
    End Sub

     _
    Private Shared Function WNetAddConnection2(netResource As NetResource, password As String, username As String, flags As Integer) As Integer
    End Function

     _
    Private Shared Function WNetCancelConnection2(name As String, flags As Integer, force As Boolean) As Integer
    End Function

End Class

 _
Public Class NetResource
    Public Scope As ResourceScope
    Public ResourceType As ResourceType
    Public DisplayType As ResourceDisplaytype
    Public Usage As Integer
    Public LocalName As String
    Public RemoteName As String
    Public Comment As String
    Public Provider As String
End Class

Public Enum ResourceScope As Integer
    Connected = 1
    GlobalNetwork
    Remembered
    Recent
    Context
End Enum

Public Enum ResourceType As Integer
    Any = 0
    Disk = 1
    Print = 2
    Reserved = 8
End Enum

Public Enum ResourceDisplaytype As Integer
    Generic = &H0
    Domain = &H1
    Server = &H2
    Share = &H3
    File = &H4
    Group = &H5
    Network = &H6
    Root = &H7
    Shareadmin = &H8
    Directory = &H9
    Tree = &HA
    Ndscontainer = &HB
End Enum