Pl. Help :: Open file lying on different machine

[tripps]

My requirement is to open a file for my web user, when he clicks on a button.

Problem is that the physical location of the file is not on the Web Server but some other machine.

 

For Ex. The file name is <MyFile.txt> this file is lying in a shared folder named <MySharedFolder> on the machine named

<MyMachine>

 

I use following code to open the file.

 

const string QC = "\\";

strFileUrl = QC + QC + "MyMachine" + QC + "MySharedFolder" + QC +"MyFile";

 

//Above code populates string variable strFileUrl with the value "\\MyMachine\MySharedFolder\MyFile.txt"

 

Server.Transfer(strFileUrl);

 

This however does not work. It throws following error.

 

System.ArgumentException: Invalid path for MapPath '\\MyMachine\MySharedFolder\MyFile.txt'. A virtual path is expected.

 

So, basically Server.Transfer method requires the virtual path.

 

Pl. help me...I am stuck up.

 

Many Thanks !!!

 

Regards

tripps

[bungpeng]

You can copy the file from that machine to Web server first (use ASP.NET server process), then only use Server.Transfer to client

[Brijesh81]

Thanks a lot bungpeng,

 

could u please also help me in writing code to use the ASP.Net Server process to copy the files to the web server.

 

Thanks a lot.

Regards

[bungpeng]

Try this:

 

Dim SourceFile, DestinationFile As String

SourceFile = "[source location]" ' Define source file name.

DestinationFile = "[Destination location]" ' Define target file name.

FileCopy(SourceFile, DestinationFile) ' Copy source to target.