Network Authentication when running exe from WMI

Question

I have a C# exe that needs to be run using WMI and access a network share. However, when I access the share I get an UnauthorizedAccessException. If I run the exe directly the s

Answer 1

I know you've sorted it by using PSEXEC, which is a fantastic program, but if you did want to go back to WMI, have you tried enabling the following in your ConnectionOptions:

• The flag EnablePrivileges
• setting the Impersonation to ImpersonationLevel.Impersonate

Which does the following:

Gets or sets a value indicating whether user privileges need to be enabled for the connection operation. This property should only be used when the operation performed requires a certain user privilege to be enabled (for example, a machine restart).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.connectionoptions.enableprivileges.aspx

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Gets or sets the COM impersonation level to be used for operations in this connection.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.connectionoptions.impersonation.aspx

I think they should tell your WMI to actually allow the program to have the correct credentials and thus access your network share