VS 2008 Copy File To Network With Windows Service
Dec 9, 2009
I am working on a backup utility for use with the mysql db. Because I need the actual backup to run regardless of if a user is logged on or not, I created the backup engine in a windows service.
Basically the backup engine checks to see if a backup job is scheduled to be run and if it is, it kicks off a mysqldump to do the backup. For sake of performance I am saving all backup jobs to the local c: drive then doing a file copy to the user defined destination.
Everything works fine except for the file copy. If the user selects a local resource to the computer it works fine. However, if a network drive is selected, I get an error that it cannot find the path.
I started thinking about it and believe this is expected since the backup engine is probably oblivious to whatever mapped drives that particular user has, i.e. the mapping process is done when someone logs in and my app is running at a lower level.
I started doing some research on this problem and found that some people are saying that windows services are oblivious of networks all together. This seemed a little odd to me so I thought I would bring the issue here.
Is a windows service truely unaware of network activity? How can I change the program to move the completed backups over to a network drive?
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Mar 9, 2009
I have to schedule an exe file as windows service.The exe file should be triggered when user connects to the pariticular net work for ex: company network.User can connect/disconnect to the company n/w "n" number of times to the network in a day. so every time when user connects to the network theservice should run the exe file.
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Jul 23, 2009
I am trying to communicate with a Windows service on a remote machine on the network but i keep getting an exception saying the following: "System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot open Service Control Manager on computer 'machine001'. This operation might require other priviledges. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access is denied.
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Jun 24, 2010
I'm hoping someone can point me in a different direction. I'm copying files from one computer to another. Both are on the same switch connected at 1Gbps here's my problem:Using File.Copy with a list of files I can get an average transfer speed of ~60Mbps Using multiple background workers with a split list of files and File.Copy is slower Using the FileStream read/write method I get an average speed of ~55Mbps with a 8M buffer
What can I do to get a faster transfer rate? I'd be happy to hit 250Mbps over the LAN.
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Aug 4, 2010
I've been looking at accessing shared folders, read and write, via the network without being prompted by the OS for the username and password.
On this forum, and googling, I can find many things about accessing network shares, but none using code which also passes the username and password required.
What I'm basically looking for is to not have to map a drive on the users computer. Then using code, write or read files from a network share and at the same time pass the username / password required for that network share.
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Mar 2, 2010
How can I map a network drive over a Windows Service. What I did until now.
Using the Shell command. -> not working.
vb.net
Shell("net use \" & My.Settings.ParaRootPath & " " & My.Settings.ParaPasswordHTTPS & " " & "/user:" & My.Settings.ParaLoginHTTPS)
Using a System.Diagnostics.Process object. -> not working
vb.net
ShellExecute As New System.Diagnostics.Process
ShellExecute.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True
ShellExecute.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe"
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If I run the application as normal application, it is working correctly.
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Jul 19, 2011
I have written a service to run an exe.What I have also tried to do is check if the file is present on the local computer, and if not copy it from a networked drive to the local computer.
If File.Exists("\\static1\software\testapp.exe") = True Then
File.Copy("\\static1\software\testapp.exe", "C:\Program Files\Testing\testapp.exe")
End If
I have previously ensured that the directory exists.When I run this as a service, it doesn't work. No errors are thrown up, but the file is not copied.When I put this into a windows forms application it works fine.
I have used:
Imports System.IO
In the header. why this won't work?
I have also tried:
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile("\\static1\software\testapp.exe", "C:\Program Files\Testing\testapp.exe")
And that also does not work.I am trying to run this on Windows XP Professional.
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Nov 18, 2011
I have a .NET 2.0 *.dll that calls My.Computer.Network.Ping(). The *.dll is then run out of an *.exe via AppDomain.CreateDomain() and Invoke(). The problem is that this works just fine under Windows XP but under Windows 7, I get an exception saying that no network connection is available. I tried the Ping() call out of a small console application under Windows 7 and it works just fine.
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Feb 18, 2009
I am working in Microsoft Visual Studio 2003.I want to copy a file from one folder to another folder in php.
I written the code in vb.net and created exe. I called that exe in php.Exe is executed successfully in php and file is successfully copied for local path. But network path file is not copied. How can i able to copy the shared network file?
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May 13, 2010
sample vb .net source to copy file from a network computer?
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Jun 5, 2009
i'm trying to copy a file from my computer to another comp. i'm using windows xp, and the other comp is using a win xp embeded. on the other machine i run a web service which has a function that gets the file's url and tries to download it. i'm trying to use a shared directory from my computer, and i'm getting an access denied error. When i try to cennect directly from the other machine (using run...), all works fine, even with a test program.
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Mar 12, 2010
I have a .net Windows Service developed in VB.net. I have a settings file in the root directory called Connections.XML and I am setting the basedirectory [code]...
When I schedule the service this is working absolutely fine in my Windows XP machine. But when I installed the same service in our development server (Windows 2003 64 bit Server) for some reason it is not able to locate this file.
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May 3, 2012
It is possible to create windows service using windows form control in vb.net. give me the url or links. The windows forms control such as, Timer control, list-box, notify-icon control etc.
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Mar 18, 2009
in my on the job training i need to develop a program (webinterface in later stage) that is able to work with the volume shadow copy service.after about a month of research i have found about nothing about how to program it using the sdk or something like that.so now im asking on forums if there is anyone who has experience with using it in own programs.so what does it have to do?first i would like to be able to get information about a volume that uses VSS. information like how many copy's were made, when were those copy's created. what files are included in the copy.my prefered langauge is C# but im not affraid to learn (more) about VB or C++
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Jul 14, 2011
i have a Windows service that is hosting a WCF service through net.tcp and this is working great. I have also created a WCF service application. I am trying to add the net.tcp service reference to the service application. Then I add it to the GAC that goes ok but if I try to RegAsm the WCF service application to allow it to be called from Server.CreateObject I get the error:
Warning: Type library exporter encountered a type that derives from a
generic class and is not marked as
[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]. Class interfaces cannot be
exposed for such types. Consider marking the type with
[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)] and exposing an explicit
interface as the default interface to COM using the
ComDefaultInterface attribute.
It does not work. I have tried to call it through a class library but this does not work either as the end point is not set correctly.
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Aug 27, 2010
We have a windows service running under a network account that calls and runs an ActiveX exe. The exe is running under the local system account, not the network account of the service.
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Aug 18, 2009
Here is my idea so far: I have a bunch of computers connected in a local network. One of them is a MySQL server, one will have a vb.NET program wich will act as a "second server" and the rest will be different clients. What I want to do is that the "second server" will send out some kind of message or network package to some of the clients in the network, and they will execute a code based on what message it is, or what kind of package it is. I'll give you a simple example:
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Dec 19, 2006
I need to copy a file from a local computer to a remote computer on the network, if i try to use File.Copy without logon i get the following error:"Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password."How do I provide user name and password for file copy?
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Mar 19, 2012
I am trying to make a handle for a custom control I made. The user control consists of many additional controls within.I am using this code to add the user control to my Form.
Dim ToolBox As New ToolboxPanel
It's created and works fine.
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Feb 16, 2011
I want to question how to call bat file in windows service using vb.net. This is my code:
Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.ComponentModel
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this service created in service windows(service manager windows), but when i start this service not happening. What wrong in my code
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Aug 22, 2010
Trying to develop a windows service which will write to a log file at prefix interval, but surprisingly the code "writelog" routine which previously work in a normal windows system but doesn't work under service.
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Aug 30, 2011
We are using a web browser to show a pdf file located in a folder on the network. The code looks like this:
System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.Navigate(New Uri("\hostpath ofile.pdf"))
This works fine, but now I have to use a specific user to access this file and I don't know how to include the user name, password and domain in the URI. Is it posible to add user credentials to the URI? Can I use another variant of Navigate method to accomplish this?
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Jan 5, 2012
I'm trying to do a simple select query from a MS access database from my service. Has anyone managed to do this in the past using their Jet eninge?
I had originally debugged and tested the code in a windows form and it worked fine. Once I moved the code into a windows service and installed it, it bombs out and doesn't generate any errors.
Thing is, I just found a .mdb file on the net so not entirely sure of the database version. I'm running office 2007 and read that if you used the .accdb version on a machine that didn't have access 2007 installed (which is going to be 99% likely), you had to install some drivers etc. in order for it to work. That is not an option unfortunately which is why I went with the old .mdb that could use Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 without any drivers to be installed.
Do I need to import something into this project to get this to work? I've attached the code below. I've added a comment after the problematic line.
Dim con As New OleDb.OleDbConnection
Dim dbProvider As String
Dim dbSource As String
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Feb 19, 2010
I've been google'ing around trying to look for examples of Windows Services using socket connections but everything has been C# or C++... I know this isn't 100% secure, but I want to do it as a practice: I want to create a Windows Service that listens on a specific port. When data is received I want to parse it as a command. For example, say I send "ring" to the IP/Port running the service it will play ring.wav.
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Aug 1, 2010
I changed config file of the windows many times. Before changing config file I stopped the service and after changing config file, started again. Every thing worked fine.
But last time when I made some changes in config file of the windows service and started it - It didnt worked, I even tried reinstalling the service but in vain.
As a last resort I rebuild the service with new config file and copied newly build files on the server and installed the service. To my surprise the Windows service worked perfectly this time.But I have only made changes to config file and the code of the windows service was untouched. My question is, do we need to rebuild the Window service if we change the config file many time?
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Feb 2, 2012
I am creating a windows service in VS2010, and in order to store a user's input during installation I've been told to write it to a file called app.config.However i cannot find this app.config file? Does it create one in a windows service project? or just in a WCF windows service project?
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Sep 11, 2011
I am creating a windows service to save current username and logon time in a CSV file. But when I install the service, the file is just created, not details are written to it, and that file is set to read-only mode. what is the problem in my code?
My code:
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
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May 4, 2011
I have some simple vb.net code that I use to copy a file between 2 servers.
IO.File.Copy(fromFileName, toFileName, True) ' Overwrites existing files
That works fine when both machines are Windows XP.
What would I need to do differently if 1 of the machines happens to be a LINUX box?
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Jan 5, 2011
I found this code which alows you to copy files using the windows api, this code works perfect untill the directory that you are copying from contains sub folders (which i need to be able to do). I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction if not sugets an alternative.
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Apr 15, 2009
I created new windows service with timer inside it for scheduler purpose and it can run successfully but it can't run other application (ex: notepad) when the timer elapsed. I can see the process running in Task Manager but the notepad windows is not open. I used this code in timer_elapsed event.
AppLauncher oAppLauncher = new AppLauncher(@"C:WindowsRegedit.exe");
new Thread(new ThreadStart(oAppLauncher.StartProcess)).Start();
where applauncher is a Class
Class AppLauncher {
string myAppPath = string.Empty;
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When I build windows App I can see Notepad open using the same code.
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