Access to a shared folder on other computer

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Can someone send me a example of how to copy a file from a remote folder to other remote folder? For example: I am running MyProgram on MyComputer and this program has to copy a file from a folder inside OtherComputer. This folder need user and password to allow MyProgram to copy the file.
I am using the following sample. The main point in this example is to make my program to work both in linux and windows, but locally. Now I want to do the same with a path like this: \\192.168.x.x\mySharedFolder\fileToBeCopied.text . Maybe I need another library but I don't know. I imagine that there will be a way to set user, password and even proxy to get a file from other computer inside a shared folder.

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//***http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-boostfs/
#include <stdio.h>
#include 
int main()
{
boost::filesystem::path path("/usr/local/include"); 
bool result = boost::filesystem::is_directory(path);
return 0;
}</stdio.h>

Posted 15-Sep-11 8:34am

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Updated 15-Sep-11 8:38am

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-09-15T08:53:00

You might want to look into this API method:

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DWORD WNetAddConnection3(HWND hwndOwner,              // owner window
                         LPNETRESOURCE lpNetResource, // connection details
                         LPTSTR lpPassword,           // password string
                         LPTSTR lpUserName,           // user name string
                         DWORD dwFlags                // connection options);

Emilio Garavaglia · Answer 2 · 2011-09-16T21:13:00

The relation between file and folders (either local or remote) is something pertinent to the operating system, not to applications.

If your account has the privilege to access a resource AND the network is properly configured, you can access whatever file with paths like "\\networkname\resourcename\folder\file".

In windows this is native by means of a protocol named CIFS, in Linux this is native by means to a protocol called NFS.
Both Windows and Linux have drivers to implement the other protocol over themselves.

If this doesn't work, check how the network is configured and how user account are authorized on the other machine.
Avoid to implement yourself "file communications" across the network. We already have all the standard needed and even more!

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