Hi all, I have an application that communicates with a document management system. In the case where the DMS is down the app should store files in a configurable network share. In order for this to happen all users to the system should have write access to the network share. In order to prevent the user from going through a heap of work only to discover that they can't store documents in the share (if the DMS is down) I want to check if the user can write to the folder when the application starts up and notify the user if there is a problem. Is there a simple way to do this check?
All of the solutions that I have found seem to suggest that you either have to: (1) load the permission set for the folder and iterate through it by hand to see if you are explicitly allowed/denied OR (2) you should just try and write and catch any exceptions. If you did write it, delete it again The first is more complicated than I had hoped. The second is really a hack but it's the leading contender at the moment. If I were to implement the second approach is there a danger that the user will write a file successfully to the share but not have the permissions to delete it? If anyone knows of a simpler method (or a good library) that will handle this it would appreciated. I realize that even if the user can write to the folder at app startup there is no guarantee that they'll be able to later but there are operations that we don't even want to start if the user can't write to the folder Regards, Michael M. Minutillo Indiscriminate Information Sponge http://codermike.com
