Displaying files from the network.

[chebbi]

Hi all

Here's my scenario:

I have a web application(Internet website not intranet or extranet) which needs to show a pdf file sitting in our network. We donot want the user to see the path for the pdf nor is making the folder where pdf resides a virtual directory a option.

Having said that what are my options?

I created a console and windows application and tried accessing this file and it works fine(I used System.io namespace for this) but when i use the same code in my web application i get username or password error. Iam not sure if web application running as aspnet user has to be given some privilages to access files on network. If anyone has thoughts on this please respond.

Badrinath Chebbi

http://www.bmchebbi.com

 

[bassguy]

hi,

It has been a really long time since I have this but you could make a http response stream and stream the file contents into that stream.

I do not remember the specifics sorry

Bassguy