| re: Bypass username/password dialog when accessing remote network
Give the ASP.NET account access to the share folder or use Impersonation to
impersonate a user with access to the share (like the username and password
you provide dialog box).
Shawn
<thoducng@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am writing some code to access share folder on a remote network.
>
>
> DirectoryInfo dicInfo = new DirectoryInfo("remoteNetwork\shareFolder");
>
>
>
> if (dicInfo.Exists)
> {
> //application code followed
>
>
>
> }
>
>
> The problem is when I ran this code, it always give me dicInfo.Exists =
>
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> false even though the directory did exists. If I go to Start\Run\ and
> type in \\remoteNetWork\shareFolder, a dialog will pop up ask me for
> username/password. After that if I run the code again and
> dicInfo.Exists = true, which means the username/password has been
> cached somewhere.
>
>
> I also try to use WebRequest class but with no success:
> System.Net.NetworkCredential myCredentials = new
> System.Net.NetworkCredential("","","");
> myCredentials.Domain = "";
> myCredentials.UserName = "username";
> myCredentials.Password = "password";
> Uri myUrl=new Uri("file://remoteNetwork/shareFolder/New Text
> Document.txt");
> WebRequest myWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(myUrl);
> Console.WriteLine("\n\nRequest to Url is sent.Waiting for
> response...Please wait ...");
> CredentialCache wrCache = new CredentialCache();
> wrCache.Add(myUrl,"NTLM", myCredentials);
> myWebRequest.Credentials = wrCache;
> myWebRequest.PreAuthenticate = true;
> wp.Credentials = wrCache;
> WebResponse myWebResponse = myWebRequest.GetResponse();
>
>
> The exception is thrown at the last line. It is either access is denied
>
>
>
> or bad username or password. I also try to change "NTLM" to "Basic"
> with no success. If I provide username, password in a dialog as the
> above case, the code then work just fine. It means that the
> NetworkCredential doesn't even need to do its work.
> It is essential for my application to provide username/password behind
> the scene because user is not always there to provide it. Any help/
> guidance is appreciated.
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