How to access share drive path using credentials with Directory.Exists(path) in c#

Question

My task is to find share drive paths existence present in other servers and adding user to same path if exists.
To achieve this am using Directory.Exists(path) method and yes it is working only for paths which i have access.
But there are many restricted paths, so i have to use credentials (We have one service account and i want use that credentials through that we can access everything: ) in order check for path existence.
Please provide me syntax or How to achieve the same, Please help me!!!

Thanks!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/125341/how-do-you-do-impersonation-in-net — ColinM, Jul 05 '18 at 11:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '18 at 12:36

As @ColinM linked, you will need to impersonate that service account and then check if the directory exists with Directory.Exists(path)

http://michiel.vanotegem.nl/2006/07/windowsimpersonationcontext-made-easy/

The above article provides a nice wrapper class to do user impersonation.

https://www.codeproject.com/articles/4051/windows-impersonation-using-c

Also give this article a read as it provides a similiar example.

How to access share drive path using credentials with Directory.Exists(path) in c#

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