Good morning, Visine_Eyes.
Welcome to Microsoft Newsgroup Service. My name is Hongye Sun [MSFT] and it
is my pleasure to work with you on this issue.
This is a good question, however, it is hard to answer, because it depends
on different situations and different errors that you are facing. To better
answer this question, can you clarify the following questions for us about
the issue backgrounds?
1. What kind of application you are developing?
2. Are the computers to copy between in the same domain?
3. What is the permission error and its call stacks?
4. It would be better if sample code can be put here.
5. If there is something missing here, please feel free to let us know.
From my perspective, I have some suggestions to handle permissions in
general situations. They are just references for you before I fully
understand your situation.
1. Standard copy
In most cases, we do copy in following sequences:
a. Check if source folder / file exists.
If no, report to user.
b. Check if destination folder exists.
If no, create a new one.
c. Check if destination file exists.
If yes, override, skip or show dialog to let user decide.
We don't need to write code to check permissions before copying directories
and files. .NET Framework API already did that. For example:
FileInfo.CopyTo method will check for the read code access permission for
source destination and check for the write code access permission for
target destination before copying. If either of them is not valid, it will
throw "SecurityException" exception. It will also check the file permission
when copying, and "IOException" will be thrown.
As you mentioned, we can use Try/Catch to report errors to user and let
user to correct the permission errors manually.
Note: make sure that the account to run the application has the target
directory's write permission. Most errors are caused by this.
2. Impersonation
Sometimes that we have to copy files across domains, it requires the
current user to type another user name and password to impersonate
temporarily. It is commonly used in web application. To do that, we have to:
a. Get a token for a user
(
http://alt.pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Keith.GuideBook/HowToGetAToken
ForAUser.html)
b. Impersonate that user
(
http://alt.pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Keith.GuideBook/HowToImpersona
teAUserGivenHerToken.html)
Here is an example:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/cpimpersonation1.aspx
Hope those references helps.
I will be waiting for your reply. Have a nice day.
Regards,
Hongye Sun (
[email protected], remove 'online.')
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