here is my code it shares the folder but that does not work correctly when i want to access it , it shows access denied help required,
private static void ShareFolder(string FolderPath, string ShareName, string Description)
{
try
{
// Create a ManagementClass object
ManagementClass managementClass = new ManagementClass("Win32_Share");
// Create ManagementBaseObjects for in and out parameters
ManagementBaseObject inParams = managementClass.GetMethodParameters("Create");
ManagementBaseObject outParams;
// Set the input parameters
inParams["Description"] = Description;
inParams["Name"] = ShareName;
inParams["Path"] = FolderPath;
inParams["Type"] = 0x0; // Disk Drive
//Another Type:
//DISK_DRIVE = 0x0;
//PRINT_QUEUE = 0x1;
//DEVICE = 0x2;
//IPC = 0x3;
//DISK_DRIVE_ADMIN = 0x80000000;
//PRINT_QUEUE_ADMIN = 0x80000001;
//DEVICE_ADMIN = 0x80000002;
//IPC_ADMIN = 0x8000003;
//inParams["MaximumAllowed"] = int maxConnectionsNum;
// Invoke the method on the ManagementClass object
outParams = managementClass.InvokeMethod("Create", inParams, null);
// Check to see if the method invocation was successful
if ((uint)(outParams.Properties["ReturnValue"].Value) != 0)
{
throw new Exception("Unable to share directory. Because Directory is already shared or directory not exist");
}//end if
}//end try
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "error!");
}//end catch
}//End Method
You have to add permissions to the shared folders. This post Adding Permissions to a shared folder using WMI and Microsoft .Net explains the steps in detail.
Excerpt from the post
To assign permission to the user, the following needs to be done
- Get hold of the Shared folder object’s setting and extract its security descriptor.
- Extract Access Control List (ACL) from the security descriptor.
- Get hold of the user account object and extract its security descriptor.
- Create a Windows Trustee object for the user using its security descriptor.
- Create an Access Control Entry (ACE) using the Trustee object.
- Add Access Control Entry to Access Control List.
- Assign List back to Security Descriptor for the folder
- Reassign security descriptor to the shared folder.
Return Values
Returns one of the values in the following table or any other value to indicate an error.
0 – Success
2 – Access denied
8 – Unknown failure
9 – Invalid name
10 – Invalid level
21 – Invalid parameter
22 – Duplicate share
23 – Redirected path
24 – Unknown device or directory
25 – Net name not found
Where are you accessing the shared folder from? If from another computer, make sure you have given read privileges on that folder to the computer that you are accessing it from.. Hope this helps...
Thanks, Ram
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