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I have a windows forms app running on a machine that is not on a domain, that needs to be able to move a file from the local filesystem to a UNC path. I have a username and password for that path. I was wondering is there any way to do this directly with out execing the net.exe
command?
Ideally I wouldn't have to map a drive.
The accepted answer on this question here seems like it would be worth looking into; it suggests using the Win32 API function WNetUseConnection.
From MSDN:
The WNetUseConnection function makes a
connection to a network resource. The
function can redirect a local device
to a network resource.
Which seems to accomplish what you're looking for, with no mention of net.exe
. Does this help?
You can use WNetAddConnection to accomplish this. You will have to pInvoke. the code below worked for me after I set up the pInvoke declarations. The second block of code (below) contains the pInvoke declarations -- just stick it inside of a class.
public static void CopyFile(string from, string shareName, string username, string password)
{
NETRESOURCE nr = new NETRESOURCE();
nr.dwType = ResourceType.RESOURCETYPE_DISK;
nr.lpLocalName = null;
nr.lpRemoteName = shareName;
nr.lpProvider = null;
int result = WNetAddConnection2(nr, password, username, 0);
System.IO.File.Copy(from, System.IO.Path.Combine(shareName, System.IO.Path.GetFileName(from)));
}
You will need to paste the following supporting code into a class (taken from pInvoke.Net). Make sure to add a using statment to your code:
using System.Runtime.InteropServices
[DllImport("Mpr.dll", EntryPoint = "WNetAddConnection2", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Winapi)]
private static extern int WNetAddConnection2(NETRESOURCE lpNetResource, string lpPassword,
string lpUsername, System.UInt32 dwFlags);
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
private class NETRESOURCE
{
public ResourceScope dwScope = 0;
public ResourceType dwType = 0;
public ResourceDisplayType dwDisplayType = 0;
public ResourceUsage dwUsage = 0;
public string lpLocalName = null;
public string lpRemoteName = null;
public string lpComment = null;
public string lpProvider = null;
};
public enum ResourceScope
{
RESOURCE_CONNECTED = 1,
RESOURCE_GLOBALNET,
RESOURCE_REMEMBERED,
RESOURCE_RECENT,
RESOURCE_CONTEXT
};
public enum ResourceType
{
RESOURCETYPE_ANY,
RESOURCETYPE_DISK,
RESOURCETYPE_PRINT,
RESOURCETYPE_RESERVED
};
public enum ResourceUsage
{
RESOURCEUSAGE_CONNECTABLE = 0x00000001,
RESOURCEUSAGE_CONTAINER = 0x00000002,
RESOURCEUSAGE_NOLOCALDEVICE = 0x00000004,
RESOURCEUSAGE_SIBLING = 0x00000008,
RESOURCEUSAGE_ATTACHED = 0x00000010,
RESOURCEUSAGE_ALL = (RESOURCEUSAGE_CONNECTABLE | RESOURCEUSAGE_CONTAINER | RESOURCEUSAGE_ATTACHED),
};
public enum ResourceDisplayType
{
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_GENERIC,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_DOMAIN,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_SERVER,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_SHARE,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_FILE,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_GROUP,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_NETWORK,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_ROOT,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_SHAREADMIN,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_DIRECTORY,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_TREE,
RESOURCEDISPLAYTYPE_NDSCONTAINER
};