papaflo

Hi,

I'm working in a Win2000 / Visual Basic 6.0 environment.

I want to copy files from a certain directory [the directory is actually on another machine, but I don't think that makes much difference in this case]. Everything is fine when there's is no security set up for the abovementioned directory. However, there has to be security and I can only do the copying if I first launch Windows Explorer, access the directory, and input the valid username and password. If I don't this, I am not able to copy the files I want.

I am currently using FileSystemObject's CopyFile method.

Should I use another approach here? Is there any way I can programatically access a password protected directory. Is there any API function or low level stuff maybe that I can use.

Please help,

Flor

jcd

Could you map a network drive and put your password/uname in when mapping the drive??
Regards
JCD

papaflo

jcd,
thank you.
as a matter of fact, that's seems like the only solution i have for now. i understand that I have to map the desired directory and enter uname/password on log-on or log-on under a particular user and add that user to the network where I copy files from so that I can have automatic access and not worry about entering passwords.
i was just hoping that you can change the access status programatically because that would be kind of cool.
flor