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

I just encountered this problem as well, and found that if I put the remote computer name into the user name, it worked. (I didn't actually figure this out, we had another place in the code already doing this that worked, so I knew it was possible, and finally figured out the difference.)

So for example:

WNetAddConnection2(&nr, "password", "SomeComputer\\Username", 0);

I'm not doing any other special calls like LogonUser or ImpersonateLoggedOnUser.

This is in a service running under the SYSTEM account.

I haven't tried using the SomeComputer\Administrator account, but that's not exactly a good practice anyway. I'm using a normal user account on SomeComputer.