Set id and password on network path

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i want to set id and password on network path in app.conifg is this possible?

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like this

<add key="abcpath" value="\\122.324.234\Logs\asdslog" />

What I have tried:

in this can i set id and password?

Posted 13-May-16 2:26am

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Updated 13-May-16 18:48pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2016-05-13T02:32:00

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Well ... yes, it's possible.
An App.config file can contain anything, so the id and password can be stored in there.

But...storing it is really irrelevant as just storing such data in there doesn't use it automatically to access shares - you will still need to read them out in your app and submit them as Authentication detail when you access the share.

You also need to look at security: App.config is a humanly readable file, so storing passwords in there is a fairly major security risk.

Posted 13-May-16 2:32am

OriginalGriff

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super_user 13-May-16 8:36am

well .. will you please tell me how to store?

OriginalGriff 13-May-16 8:52am

See here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13043530/what-is-app-config-in-c-net-how-to-use-it

super_user 14-May-16 0:50am

if i do this
connectionString="Data Source=\\122.324.234\Logs\asdslog;uid=abc; password=123"

then is this right?

OriginalGriff 14-May-16 1:52am

I have absolutely no idea - it's not a valid IP address, for starters! :laugh:
And it will depend on what your application is going to do with it when it reads it back!
Does that work if you try it in your code without storing it?

super_user 14-May-16 1:57am

i know this is not valid IP address. i mention rough IP address

super_user 14-May-16 1:58am

i call this path in code like this
string abc="";
abc= ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("abcpath");

OriginalGriff 14-May-16 2:24am

:sigh:
No, what do you do with it once you have loaded it?
In your existing code, you presumably have something like

string s = @"Data Source=\\122.324.234\Logs\asdslog;uid=abc; password=123";
OpenTheLogsFolder(s);

So does that work?