Invalid path error when FileSystemWatcher points to a network location

[srivalli9]

Hi,

 

I have written a Windows Service.

This has a "FileSystemWatcher" component in it whose path is set to a

network folder.

[Ex: \\someNetworkMachineName\Folder1\]

This basically fires an event when the content of the network folder are

modified.

But after I installed the service and tried to start the service, I got the "invalid path" error.

Please note that everything works fine if I replace the path to a

network folder with that of a local folder.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you

Srivalli.

[Shurikn]

You probably have tough about all this but just in case,

do you have acess to the network folder?

if you need to enter a password and a username to conect to it, under windows you have to redo it everytime.

maybe you already tough of this and you are entering a password everytime, but it's not written there so i'm asking anyway...

 

another way to do it would maybe to create a virtual drive to the folder...