C# application to access remote PC folder

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Hi,

Can anybody help me out in developing C# apllication to access content of a folder that is residing on another PC with different credential. These two PC's are Connected through LAN. So, I need an apllication that access a remote PC folder.

Thanks in advance.:)

Posted 2-Apr-13 19:11pm

Vinod KUmar S N

Updated 2-Apr-13 19:35pm

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Bernhard Hiller · Answer 1 · 2013-04-02T20:51:00

Solution 2

You have to look for "Impersonation". See e.g. A complete Impersonation Demo in C#.NET[^] for an example.

Posted 2-Apr-13 20:51pm

Bernhard Hiller

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2013-04-02T19:16:00

Solution 1

If by "remote PC folder" you simply mean the shared folder, for the user it's no different from a local directory. You don't need any "application", you just write the code using System.IO.

Another option is to install/run an FTP server on a remote host. For a client-part code, all you need to use is the class System.Net.FtpWebRequest:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.ftpwebrequest.aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 2-Apr-13 19:16pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Vinod KUmar S N 3-Apr-13 1:39am

Thanks Alexandrovich. But, I also need to access the folders using credential, if that folder is not shared.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Apr-13 13:26pm

If the folder is not shared and not served up with FTP is some other protocol and service, you don't have access to is. If you need to use credentials, use them.
—SA