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    I need to create a windows applications to access unix server files. How can I accomplish this task.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    • Moved by Chester Hong Monday, April 1, 2013 11:01 AM not a WinForm question.
    Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:55 AM

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    You are aware that this forum is about the Graphical User Interface Windows Forms, not about Windows Applications?

    Start at the forum of your program language. Be aware there are more GUI's possible on Windows systems. 

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/vslanguages

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    Thursday, March 28, 2013 7:09 AM
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    Easiest way would be to use something like samba on the unix server to "publish" a directory for you to us and then connect to that file share from your program.

    Never done the server-side stuff (although I've used it extensively over the years).

    For accessing the file share from the application, you'll need to use the native method "WNetAddConnection2W", in mpr.dll (or, at least I did back in Fx2.0 - things may have improved a bit since then :-) )

    Regards, Phill W.

    Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:14 PM

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    You are aware that this forum is about the Graphical User Interface Windows Forms, not about Windows Applications?

    Start at the forum of your program language. Be aware there are more GUI's possible on Windows systems. 

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/vslanguages

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    Thursday, March 28, 2013 7:09 AM
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    Easiest way would be to use something like samba on the unix server to "publish" a directory for you to us and then connect to that file share from your program.

    Never done the server-side stuff (although I've used it extensively over the years).

    For accessing the file share from the application, you'll need to use the native method "WNetAddConnection2W", in mpr.dll (or, at least I did back in Fx2.0 - things may have improved a bit since then :-) )

    Regards, Phill W.

    Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:14 PM
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    Hi RS Ops,

    I'm afraid your question is beyond the scope of WinForms technologies.

    I would like to move the thread to "Where is the forum for.." forum to look for a better forum.

    Thanks for your understanding and support.

    Best regards,

    Chester Hong
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    Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

    Monday, April 1, 2013 11:00 AM