Connecting to network share

[Asprisa]

hi guys,

i was wondering if there is a way to connect to a server share that requires a username and password without mapping it as a drive, what i wish to do is open a session so i can save a log file, but i do not wish the user who is running the application to see the share or the log file, i ahve played with an oledb connection but it kept complaining about workgroup information being missing.

Here is my code:

   
'''insert some kind of connection string here
 
Dim writer As New StreamWriter("" & fileloc & "" & nbkname & ".txt", True)
writer.WriteLine("" & tmpuser & " Opened Drive Mapper at " & dateTimeInfo & "")
writer.Close()
 
'''close the connection

the first line (just so you know what the code is doing) is saving to a file in a location set by the varaible fileloc and filename 'nbkname' .txt

if anyone can help it would be much appriciated!

Jay!

[DrBunchman]

Hi there,

Could you not give the username that your application is running under permission to access this share? That way the user would not be able to access the share but your application could.

Dr B

[Asprisa]

im not sure if this is possible as it will be run locally on around 128 notebooks, i want to obvisouly make as little work as possible for myself and anyone else who works on this project in the future. Is this possible the way you talk about?

[DrBunchman]

Is this a website or windows app you're talking about?

[Asprisa]

Sorry it is a windows app

[Asprisa]

i just came across this code i will try this and let you know what happens.

 Dim imp As New RunAs_Impersonator 
Try
imp.ImpersonateStart(DomainName, UserName, Password) 'creates new context using token for user
 
Add code to run as UserName here 'everything between ImpersonateStart and ImpersonateStop will be run as the impersonated user
 
imp.ImpersonateStop() 
Catch ex As Exception 'make sure impersonation is stopped whether code succeeds or not
MsgBox(ex.Message)
imp.ImpersonateStop()
End Try

Jay!