Reading File From Network drive

Lijo Rajan

Hi all, can any one please tell me how can i read from a file which resides in net work drive? Regards Lijo

Dimitri Witkowski

As a usual file (e.g. System.IO.File.ReadAllText(...)) :) Doesn't it work?

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Lijo Rajan

my file resides in remote system. from that system only i want to read a file. can you please tell me how can i do that? Regards Lijo

realJSOP

It's the same as when you read a file from your local drive. Why would you think it would be any different?

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Dimitri Witkowski

This can be done in 3 ways: 1. Map the remote drive (this means, assing e.g. Z: letter to the drive) 2. Read from this location: \\remote-computer\Share\path\file.txt. In this case, the file must be shared in Share folder on the remote computer. 3. If you are running under the credentials of the administrator on the remote computer (this means that two computers are in the same domain), you can read directly from this path: \\remote-computer\C$\path\file.txt.

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Dimitri Witkowski

Please see also my answer in this thread on CodeProject: [^]

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