SHared folder on vista

[inkwaterman]

HI !

I have made an application that shared a folder for "everyone" on windows XP.

I tried to run this application on a Vista PC, but when it tries to share , it fails.

What's the different in sharing folder from vista to XP ?

How i can fix my application for vista ?

thanks to ALL

This is the code on my application that share folder:

 
Public Sub ShareFolder()
        If Create_A_Shared_Folder = True Then
            Try
                Dim managementClass As ManagementClass = New ManagementClass("Win32_Share")
                Dim inParams As ManagementBaseObject = managementClass.GetMethodParameters("Create")
                Dim outParams As ManagementBaseObject

                inParams("Description") = "DSS Shared Folder"
                inParams("Name") = SharedDirectoryNetworkPath
                inParams("Path") = SharedDirectoryPath
                inParams("Type") = 0
                inParams("MaximumAllowed") = 2
                inParams("Access") = Nothing

                outParams = managementClass.InvokeMethod("Create", inParams, Nothing)

                If (outParams.Properties("ReturnValue").Value) <> 0 Then

                    Throw New Exception("Unable to share directory.")
                End If

                Dim rul As New Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule("Everyone", Security.AccessControl.FileSystemRights.FullControl, Security.AccessControl.AccessControlType.Allow)

                Dim dInfo As New DirectoryInfo(SharedDirectoryPath)
                Dim dSecurity As DirectorySecurity = dInfo.GetAccessControl()

                dSecurity.AddAccessRule(New FileSystemAccessRule("Everyone", FileSystemRights.FullControl, InheritanceFlags.ContainerInherit, PropagationFlags.None, AccessControlType.Allow))
                dSecurity.AddAccessRule(New FileSystemAccessRule("Everyone", FileSystemRights.FullControl, InheritanceFlags.ObjectInherit, PropagationFlags.InheritOnly, AccessControlType.Allow))
                dInfo.SetAccessControl(dSecurity)
            Catch ex As Exception
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "error!")
            End Try

        End If
    End Sub

[Negative0]

I believe sharing requires elevated privileges. Have you tried running your app as administrator and see if that helps? There is a UAC settings option in the project properties that you can use to indicate you need elevated privileges.

[inkwaterman]

Like you said , I tried to execute my application on vista like superuser.

The application now share the folder, but unlike windows xp permit, its impossible di access in without specificate the user name and password of vista PC.

Besides the Vista folder have not the full privilege, for example I can't copy a file into from another PC.

I enabed the ClickOne Security Settings with "thi is a FULL trust application"


Thank for you reply