network-share

Cannot access files on drive mapped network share from a Windows service.

I have a network shared folder mapped to a drive letter, which is accessible from Windows Explorer, from the command prompt as well as from my WinForms application without problem. It is also accessible from my Windows service using a UNC path. However, when I attempt to access this network location using a mapped drive letter from the ...

Cannot find network path for VM guest XP computer on the network

VMWare Workstation 6.5 is running as an app on a Windows Vista 64bit PC host. Thanks to Workstation we have 2 guest machines running: TerriVM and MattVM (both of these run Windows XP SP2). We are attempting to get virtual networking configured so we can access the files of both of these VM guest systems from other real PCs connected to ...

How to find out what user a SQL stored procedure accesses network shares as?

I've been asked to find out why a program is failing. I've traced it to a SQL stored procedure. The program passes in the name of a file that the st. proc. presumably tries to read. However, the SQL server is returning an error indicating that it cannot access the file because access is denied. My connection string says Integrated Se...

discover source path of a network share

on ClientBox, given an existing D:\foo\bar\, i need to find out whether it's local or remote, and if it's remote, what path it's on the server. so, if ServerBox shares its F:\public, and ClientBox maps it to D:\, i should get F:\public\foo\bar\. i want this information to be able to put correct paths into a configuration file. ...