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I'm trying to write a program that will monitor folder activity in windows xp. I would like to achieve the following...
1) Show which sub folders / files have been accessed
2) Show user detail / computer
3) date / time
I have looked at "filesystemwatcher" but that only works on windows 2000 / NT4.0. Any suggestions?
What, the filesystemwatcher only works on Windows 2000/NT 4.0??
It's part of the framework so will work where the framework is installed.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...er(vs.80).aspx
Cheers for the link. I was reading a whole bunch of other posts on different forums and code examples and it was mentioned that it would only work on Windows 2000 / NT 4.0. I now have it working on Windows XP but the only thing it is not telling me is when the folder / file was accessed.
Below is the code that I have used to monitor username and pc, but when accessed by a remote connection, the program only registers the local username / pc
Code:
lstEvents.Items.Add("Watcher detected some activity at " & _
Date.Now.ToString & " By " & GetCurrent.Name & " At WorkStation " & Environment.MachineName.ToString)
Where are you getting GetCurrent.Name data? I don't see it as a common .net function.
And for getting Access time, use: IO.File.GetLastAccessTime("C:\test.txt")
Also, from more research it looks like the only reason it says the local username and machine is because thats what your code is looking for.
He doesn't want to simply get the last access time of any file. He wants the fileSystemWatcher to raise the event of a change in the last access time of a file in a folder which is under watch which you can do by specifying it in the NotifyFilter property.
As for getting the info about the remote user I'm afraid I can't be of any help, maybe someone else will know or you could try a search or two on google and see if that has any luck.
Of course, Im just saying after setting up the NotifyFilter, I would recommend using LastAccessTime to get the actual time/date when it's raised.Quote:
Originally Posted by stimbo
Ive set the the NotifyFilters.LastAccess, but say for example when I open a text document in a folder which is under watch, nothing is logged. The only items that are showing are rename, delete, change, created.