Jesper,
Thanks for answering and sorry it took a little while to get back
to you. My boss had to find the code.
Here's what we're using at startup of the program. The code reads a
config file for directories it needs to work. If they're not there it
creates them. That is failing on vista ultimate unless I run as
administrator. On vista home it doesn't work even if I ran as
administrator.
Here's the code and thanks again for answering.
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Try
_RootGroupsFolder = AppMain.AppVar.Main.MyFolder
Trace.WriteLineIf(AppMain.AppVar.Trace.Level.Info,
"Message.", Routine)
If bDebugStartup Then MessageBox.Show("Message.")
If Not System.IO.Directory.Exists(_RootGroupsFolder) Then
Viewer_StatusChange("Creating folders...")
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(_RootGroupsFol der)
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(System.IO.Path .Combine(_RootGroupsFolder,
"Folder1"))
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(System.IO.Path .Combine(_RootGroupsFolder,
"Folder2"))
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(System.IO.Path .Combine(_RootGroupsFolder,
"Folder3"))
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(System.IO.Path .Combine(_RootGroupsFolder,
"Folder4"))
End If
Catch ex As Exception
HandleStartupError(ex, String .Concat("Unable to create
group folder '", _RootGroupsFolder, "'", System.Environment.NewLine,
System.Environment.NewLine, ex.Message))
Return
End Try
On Apr 23, 1:56 pm, Jesper <Jes...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Can you give some more information on how you write to network drives in this
> app? What you are describing should not have anything to do with UAC. UAC
> being enabled on a client would not impact the token you have on a server.
> However, if the server is running Vista with UAC enabled, and you are
> connecting to it as an administrator the presence of UAC on the server could
> have an impact.
>
> What does the code look like that performs this writing? It sounds to me
> like this is related to something else in the code, not UAC.
> ---
> Your question may already be answered in Windows Vista Security:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047...otectyourwi-20
>
> "fig000" wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am new to vista and uac. We have an app that was written under
> > vs2003 (windows). When the app runs normally it has a problem creating
> > and writing to network directories. I've gotten around this to some
> > extent by having the app run as administrator by default. Of course
> > this means that I get the UAC prompt asking if I want to allow the app
> > to run.
>
> > I'm wondering if this is the best I can do. I've noticed that other
> > apps (my program text editor for example) can write to the same
> > network drives without any trouble and without any prompts from UAC.
> > So, it seems, can notepad. This makes me wonder about how this is
> > done. Do these apps have elevated privilages by using a manifest and
> > AIS (as I've read about) or is there something more standard that
> > these apps do? We have third party app here that we sell and it will
> > be running on our customer's desktops. I'd like to use the best
> > technique to allow it to run and I'm wondering what other commercial
> > apps such as notepad do.
>
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> >Fig
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