Access files from network share in c# web app

Question

I have a web application that needs to read (and possibly write) files from a network share. I was wondering what the best way to do this would be?

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Answer 1

Impersonation worked well for me in this scenario. We had a wizard that uploaded a zip file through the website, but we load balanced the site. Therefore needed to setup a way to save the file on all the machines.

There are many different ways to do it. We decided to make all requests to run under the user we setup and just added the web.config entry and setup the security permissions on the folders for the user. This kb article explains the setup very well.