I have a .NET Windows Service written to watch one of our network drives for any deletions. I am running this service as a user service seeing I do not have access to the servers and have to run it as myself to get it to work. Now in part of this service it is suppose to log who deleted a folder. The problem is that everytime something is deleted it shows that I deleted it even when it was another user. What is the best way to fix this? I have tried everything from System.Net.DNS.GetHostName, to Enviroment.UserName. Any help would me most appreciated.

Billy

Not that I am trying to dissuade you from creating new things, but why don't you just set the auditing properties of the folders/files to log for deletion? This is already built into Windows and, unless it does something you don't want it to no sense re-inventing the wheel.

J

I would have gone that route except for the fact that A. I do not have security permissions to do so. B. I do not have access to the logs.

Yea I hate re-inventing the wheel

Billy

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