How to provide user name and password when connecting to a network share

Question

When connecting to a network share for which the current user (in my case, a network enabled service user) has no rights, name and password have to be provided.

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Answer 1

One option that might work is using WindowsIdentity.Impersonate (and change the thread principal) to become the desired user, like so. Back to p/invoke, though, I'm afraid...

Another cheeky (and equally far from ideal) option might be to spawn a process to do the work... ProcessStartInfo accepts a .UserName, .Password and .Domain.

Finally - perhaps run the service in a dedicated account that has access? (removed as you have clarified that this isn't an option).