Ok so no reply from anyone, so I'll leave what I got When using network resources the asp.net "user" doesn’t have the required rights. So , what you need to do is impersonate a user on the sever having the rights the access the network . Create a class, call it whatever you want, I’ll call this one impersonation and add the following: Some of the imports won’t be needed
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System.Web.Security
Imports System.Security.Principal
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Imports System.Threading
Imports System.Configuration
Imports SR = System.Reflection
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls
Public Class Impersonation
Private Const LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT As Integer = 0
Private Const LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE As Integer = 2
Private Const LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK As Integer = 3
Private Const LOGON32_LOGON_BATCH As Integer = 4
Private Const LOGON32_LOGON_SERVICE As Integer = 5
Private Const LOGON32_LOGON_UNLOCK As Integer = 7
Private Const LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK_CLEARTEXT As Integer = 8
Private Const LOGON32_LOGON_NEW_CREDENTIALS As Integer = 9
Private Shared ImpersonationContext As WindowsImpersonationContext
Declare Function LogonUserA Lib "advapi32.dll" ( \_
ByVal lpszUsername As String, \_
ByVal lpszDomain As String, \_
ByVal lpszPassword As String, \_
ByVal dwLogonType As Integer, \_
ByVal dwLogonProvider As Integer, \_
ByRef phToken As IntPtr) As Integer
Declare Auto Function DuplicateToken Lib "advapi32.dll" ( \_
ByVal ExistingTokenHandle As IntPtr, \_
ByVal ImpersonationLevel As Integer, \_
ByRef DuplicateTokenHandle As IntPtr) As Integer
Declare Auto Function RevertToSelf Lib "advapi32.dll" () As Long
Declare Auto Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32.dll" (ByVal handle As IntPtr) As Long
Public Shared Function ImpersonateValidUser(ByVal strUserName As String, \_
ByVal strDomain As String, ByVal strPassword As String) As Boolean
Dim token As IntPtr = IntPtr.Zero
Dim tokenDuplicate As IntPtr = IntPtr.Zero
Dim tempWindowsIdentity As WindowsIdentity
ImpersonateValidUser = False
If RevertToSelf() <> 0 Then
If LogonUserA(st
