windows-share

Trying to get a Windows Service to run an executable on a shared drive

I have c# that will run in a windows service. I'm trying to use the Process and ProcessStartInfo classes to run an executable. If the executable is on the local drive, no problem. However, I need to run an executable on a shared drive. I've tried using the UNC notation (//machine_name/share_name/directory/runme.exe), but the process ...

Accessing a Windows Share using PHP

I need to access an Excel file on a Windows Share using PHP but seem to be running into what looks like an authentication issue. I'm using PHP-ExcelReader to open and read the file. Works fine on my local machine but the server I'm putting it on doesn't have the rights to access this share, and so its telling me that the path is unreada...

NFS or SMB on Windows Share

If I were to create a Windows shared folder, put a database file in that folder to be shared among multiple users of our client app, is that an NFS or SMB shared folder? ...

Access Windows Share under Network Service account

I have two computers with Windows Server 2003. One computer has some shared folders on the network, and the other has a Windows Service (written in C#, running under the Network Service account) that needs to access those shared folders. The following code works fine as a logged-in user, but throws an exception when executed under the N...