Access files from .NET Windows Service

17 Jul 2006 5:37 PM

Tom

Is it possible to access (Read via StreamReader) an external file from
a Wndows service? I.E. In the OnStart method of the service, I need to
go out and read a couple of external files (and these files appear on a
differnet server and are accessed via a UNC syntax - i.e.
\\server\share\myfile.txt). I tried this under my VB.NET service but it
keeps telling me that I have an unauthorized file access when my
service starts up)

Thanks.

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17 Jul 2006 6:40 PM

Izzy

Sounds like a permissions issue. I'd create a user accout for the
service to use and give this user read\write permissions to the share.

Israel

Tom wrote:
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> Is it possible to access (Read via StreamReader) an external file from
> a Wndows service? I.E. In the OnStart method of the service, I need to
> go out and read a couple of external files (and these files appear on a
> differnet server and are accessed via a UNC syntax - i.e.
> \\server\share\myfile.txt). I tried this under my VB.NET service but it
> keeps telling me that I have an unauthorized file access when my
> service starts up)
>
> Thanks.
>
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17 Jul 2006 10:29 PM

Tom

Hmm... that is kinda ugly... Is there a way that I can simply add the
system account (the one the service is currently running under) to the
share's read/write permissions?

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Izzy wrote:

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>Sounds like a permissions issue. I'd create a user accout for the
>service to use and give this user read\write permissions to the share.
>
>Israel
>
>Tom wrote:
>> Is it possible to access (Read via StreamReader) an external file
>>from a Wndows service? I.E. In the OnStart method of the service,
>>I need to go out and read a couple of external files (and these
>>files appear on a differnet server and are accessed via a UNC
>>syntax - i.e. \\server\share\myfile.txt). I tried this under my
>>VB.NET service but it keeps telling me that I have an unauthorized
>>file access when my service starts up)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --

18 Jul 2006 12:33 PM

Izzy

I've got 2 or 3 windows services and some other apps that need to
access network drives and databases. I find it easy to have them all
run under the same user account "Robot".

But if you don't want to go that route then just change the folders
permissions to allow anyone to read and write.

But if security is an issue, I'd set up a user account.

Tom wrote:
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> Hmm... that is kinda ugly... Is there a way that I can simply add the
> system account (the one the service is currently running under) to the
> share's read/write permissions?
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>
>
>
> Izzy wrote:
>
> >Sounds like a permissions issue. I'd create a user accout for the
> >service to use and give this user read\write permissions to the share.
> >
> >Israel
> >
> >Tom wrote:
> >> Is it possible to access (Read via StreamReader) an external file
> >>from a Wndows service? I.E. In the OnStart method of the service,
> >>I need to go out and read a couple of external files (and these
> >>files appear on a differnet server and are accessed via a UNC
> >>syntax - i.e. \\server\share\myfile.txt). I tried this under my
> >>VB.NET service but it keeps telling me that I have an unauthorized
> >>file access when my service starts up)
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> --