Mapped Network Drive

[yu217171]

Hi everyone,

I'm having problems creating a folder on a mapped network drive. The code works fine for a local drive but I get the following error when attempting to run the code on a mapped drive.

Error: Could not find a part of the path "R:\".

Here's a snippet of the code that I am using.

DirectoryInfo objFolder = new DirectoryInfo ("R:\\Test");
objFolder.Create ();

Anyone have any ideas or come across this problem before?

Keith

 

[obislavu]

If your code is like here :

DirectoryInfo objFolder = new DirectoryInfo ("R:\\Test");
try
{
   objFolder.Create ();

}
catch (Exception ex)
{
  string sErr = ex.GetType() + " " + ex.Message;
}

then
DirectoryInfo objFolder = new DirectoryInfo ("R:\\Test");
there is no checking about the path passed in the constructor.
The error is thrown when Create() is called and that because :
1. the "R:\\" doesn't exist on the machine where your code is running
or
2. If the "R:\\" drive is mapped then maybe it is readonly and you cannot create files on that drive.
To check that, use notepad and try to create a file on that drive.

-obislavu-

 

[yu217171]

Instead of using a mapped path, I used a UNC path to refer to my folder and it worked well. The problem I was having seemed to be with impersonation. I had to specify a domain user account and a password in my web.config file. What I didn't understand was, why wasn't it picking up my Windows account credentials?

<identity impersonate="true" userName="domain\account" password="mypwd" />

The user account I specified in my web.config is the exact same one that I use to login.

Keith