How to connect to a certain drive on a server box by IP address programmatically

[IlyaRabyy]

Colleagues,
Let's say you have an IP address and the drive letter on a remote server box, and you need to connect to this remote box your program's server box, so your program could, say, copy some files back-n-forth.
Just for argument sake, IP address is 123.456.78.90 and the drive letter is D:\.
(Tried to find it in the MS documentation on line, but all references came related to ADO .NET, SqlConnection, etc. - not what I need...)
Please advise.
TIA!

Regards,

Ilya

 

[strongm]

Is it shared? Do you have correct permissions on the share?

I ask, because most file-accessing components in .NET understand UNC file paths.

So for example the following works fine:

[blue]If FileIO.FileSystem.DirectoryExists("\\192.168.1.106\D$\.") Then
     MsgBox("I can see the D drive on server with IP 192.168.1.106")
End If[/blue]

 

[IlyaRabyy]

Yes, Strongm, I know this.
Apologies, it seems I formulated my question incorrectly, it should be:

How do I, the Program, log into a server box on run time programmatically, provided that I, the Program, am not a person who can type in the U/N and P/W?

(No need to call the police, FCC, FBI, NSA, DHS, ICC, UN, etc. ( ): the task is to send the PDFs with HR info from us, vendor/provider to a web server where our clients' employees can download them.)


Regards,

Ilya

 

[Andrzejek]

send the PDFs [...] to [...] our clients' employees"

Hmm.. my simple mind says: e-mail them as attachments


---- Andy

There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

 

[strongm]

[blue]   Process.Start("CMD", "/c net use \\192.168.1.80\Home /user:<username> <password>")
    If FileIO.FileSystem.DirectoryExists("\\192.168.1.80\Home\backups") Then
        MsgBox("I can see the folder on that IP")
    End If
    Process.Start("CMD", "/c Net use /delete \\192.168.1.80\Home")[/blue]

But the success of this will very much depend on how the remote box is set up. In my case, for example, I was testing against a NAS on my local network running SMB, and with all relevant firewalls configured to allow SMB traffic.

 

[IlyaRabyy]

e-mail them as attachments

Not an option. Imagine a client with 1.5K employees all over the US and Canada...

Regards,

Ilya