WNetAddConnection2 from a Windows Service

Question

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 unabl

Answer 1

To tell the trust I worked all time only in a domain environment and without password-protected network shares, but I know that there are two main ways to make a connection: WNetAddConnection2 API and NetUseAdd API. I recommend you to try NetUseAdd function with Level equal to 1 (USE_INFO_1). I used only USE_INFO_2 which has ui2_username, ui2_domainname and ui2_password, but USE_INFO_1 has only ui1_password, so it looks like a function made for connection to a password-protected share.

By the way, LogonUser() has really no sense, because it makes local login on the local computer and you need to establish a session to the remote computer. This do WNetAddConnection2 and NetUseAdd functions.