Accessing Protected Shared Files

Can someone please tell me how I can access a shared file on the network that is protected by a password. If I set up the folder with out password protection then anyone can view. By doing the following:

\\computername\sharedfoldername\readme.txt

But how do I access this file 'readme.txt' if I password protect that network shared folder. The above path does not work when a password is in place.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Zoran

Try this

Option Explicit

Private Declare Function WNetAddConnection Lib "mpr.dll" Alias "WNetAddConnectionA" (ByVal lpszNetPath As String, ByVal lpszPassword As String, ByVal lpszLocalName As String) As Long

Private Declare Function WNetAddConnection Lib "mpr.dll" Alias "WNetAddConnectionA" (ByVal lpszNetPath As String, ByVal lpszPassword As String, ByVal lpszLocalName As String) As Long



Private Sub Form_Load()
WNetAddConnection "\\SomeComputer\SomeFolder\", "Password", "T:"

End Sub

This code will add a network connection to a computer.
The first parameter is the path,
second: Passowrd
third: Local drive name (here you have to type in a letter and a semicolon, the drive should be available otherwise it will give an error)

Once you have don that, you can do file operations on it
eg:)

Kill "T:\SomeFile.txt"

After performing your operrations type:
WNetCancelConnection "T:", True

Thank you very much Yash. I will give it a try tomorrow. It has been a long day.....I had many computer problems to resolve today...

I guess there is no switch I can add to the path kind of like

\\ComputerName\ShareFolder\readme.txt /p password

or

\\ComputerName\ShareFolder\readme.txt -password

Thanks again for your help.....

Zoran

Yeah, you can add add a connection to anything. If that share has a password then add the passowrd in the parameter, if it does'nt, leave it blank

Sorry to bother you again Yash, but I noticed that you called a function

WNetCancelConnection "T:", True

Do you need to declare this function like you did the other one....WNetAddConnection

Thanks,

Zoran

I think he posted the declaration twice by accident, which should refer to the cancel function

YEah, i Did

Private Declare Function WNetCancelConnection Lib "mpr.dll" Alias "WNetCancelConnectionA" (ByVal lpszName As String, ByVal bForce As Long) As Long

Add this

Thanks, that makes sense.

Zoran