Re: accessing mapped drives in ASP.NET application

From: Farooq Khan (farooq_at_softechww.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:54:35 +0500

well Raterus....it goes like this...its an intranet application actually and
i have got a Novell Netware file server running that holds some files this
application is after. this application uses a component that is supposed to
access those files. what i have done is that i have mapped the drive from
Netware Server that i thought my application would be able to use. but seems
like this isnt going to happen that easily. for testing purpose i tried
accessing Windows mapped folder but failed there as well. as far as
authentication mode is concerned, i'm using the default settings. by the wat
how can i use UNC?? how am i gonna tell my application what user/pwd to use
while accessing the folder??? is it to be configured in IIS??
PLEASE HELP ME.
thanks
Farooq Khan

"Raterus" <raterus@spam.org> wrote in message
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Well you are in the right place, though this can be a pain, so be prepared.

First, I wouldn't access "mapped" drives, like N:\, but shares,
"\\servername\share", those are UNC paths, and much more compatible than
using drive names, since the account that is accessing them doesn't need to
have them mapped.

As for actually having permissions to access them, that really depends on
how you have set up the security in your application, can you explain what
you are after?

"Farooq Khan" <farooq@softechww.com> wrote in message
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> hi,
> is there any way i can access mapped drive through ASP.NET application?? i
> have tried doing that the standard way but didnt work, used the same code
> in
> win32 application and it worked fine though.
> thanks
> Farooq Khan
>
>