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Scott
Scott

Reputation: 3019

Creating a shared folder using C#

I've spent the last few days scouring the site looking for an answer to this problem, i need to create a folder and then make it a shared networked folder, I've tried several different sample code snippets from different sites

http://www.sarampalis.org/articles/dotnet/dotnet0002.shtml (this link is dead)

but none seem to allow the folder to be shared

If anyone could be of help it'd be much aprriciated

Upvotes: 1

Views: 12045

Answers (3)

kashyapa
kashyapa

Reputation: 1626

I did follow the link that you have in your question.

I have a Win 7 Professional + VS.NET 2010 Professional as my dev environment on my laptop.

I took the code from the article and quickly fired up a devenv and executed the code. The code executed perfectly without any error. When i looked at the created directory you dont see a share icon on the folder but it is indeed shared. How can you check that: open a command prompt type "net share" and press enter you will see that it will list the folder c:\MyTestShare with a share name "My Test Share"

One more way to find out whether it is shared or not is to right click on the folder and look at the sharing tab. Check the Network Path label. It will clearly show the shared path.

Hope this helps you. Lohith

Upvotes: 0

Ran
Ran

Reputation: 6159

If you don't find the real Windows API that does this, and you can settle for a dirty solution, you can do it by executing the command "net share".

For example, like this:

ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo("net", "share MyNewShare=c:\\folder");
info.CreateNoWindow = true;
Process.Start(info);

Note that in any case, in order to create a share you need administrative rights, so your code will have to run elevated if you're running on Win7/Vista with UAC enabled.

Upvotes: 2

alfdev
alfdev

Reputation: 1049

See

http://www.sarampalis.org/articles/dotnet/dotnet0002.shtml

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/Share-Folder-c_.aspx

Upvotes: 0

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