I am currently making an ASP.Net application that uses SQL to pull data from a database and displays the information from the db on the page. However, I've been asked to pull information from a share drive on my network containing more information. However, I was told that VB will allow me to retrieve this data in the share drive, but I am not sure how to go about it? I've tried making a vitural directory on my IIS (my computer is a web server for testing), but failed.

See I am trying to pull information on the state of projects and allow the user to go to that project folder, not just one document in that folder.

Any ideas?

Thanks.


Newbie

Access network file resources from an ASP.NET application can be tricky and problematic. I have an application that gets all it's file data in production off of a NAS device. The way we do it is to set up a virtual directory under the main web application that is pointed at the network location. You have to specific in IIS what identify to connect as do IIS has the valid credentials to access the files.

Remember that your ASP.NET application does not run under the same user identity that you are logged is as. So while you might easily be able to browser directly to the file resource (using your login credentials) the application can not.

To complicate matters, I have seen instances where the "connect as" credentials settings somehow get lost and the application starts to fail. We still haven't figured out why this happens.

-Peter

Thanks for the help, I'll keep that in mind when figuring out an idea for this project.

Newbie