How can i Check Remote Directory exist or not?

Question

_{Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:29 PM}

Dear All,

i want to validate if a remote shared path exist.

Is there any way to do this, i used code below but its showing error.

string remoteDirectoryPath = @"\\192.168.98.15\abc\Test";
if (!Directory.Exists(remoteDirectoryPath))
   {
      MessageBox.Show(string.Format("Unable to Access Path= {0}", remoteDirectoryPath), "Path Access Failure", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);
   }

Directory.exist(remoteDirectoryPath) is not able to validate directory exist or not.

\192.168.98.15\abc\Test is accesible through run

All replies (5)

_{Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:03 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Harish,

  Welcome to MSDN Forum Support.

  You can use following code that check the any file exist of not, in case of file not exist it return the 404 error, file not exist.

 

WebRequest request;

        WebResponse response;

        String strMSG = string.Empty;

        request = WebRequest.Create(new Uri(NetWorkPath));

        request.Method = "HEAD";

        try

        {

            response = request.GetResponse();

            strMSG = string.Format("{0} {1}", response.ContentLength, response.ContentType);

        }

        catch (Exception ex)

        {

            //In case of File not Exist Server return the (404) Error

        }

       

  For its detailed explanations, you can refer to this forum thread named How to validating the existence of a remote directory.

  Sincerely,

  Jason Wang

Jason Wang [MSFT]
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_{Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:35 PM}

Hi,

Please always post the exact error message. It seems to work fine here...

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_{Tuesday, March 19, 2013 6:39 PM}

Dear Patrice Scribe,

Thanks for the advice.

It's not showing any error or exception,

if (!Directory.Exists(remoteDirectoryPath))

it is showing directory not exist, but it is accessible through run command

_{Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:15 PM}

Is Test a directory?     Directory.Exists fails on files.   Exists doesn't raise exceptions on errors.  It just returns false if the path doesn't result in a Directory that has read access (at least).

_{Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:30 AM}

What if you place a simple txt file in this directory and use File.ReadAllText to read it ? This is just to see if you could have some exception that will better help in understanding what happens.

I gave this a try (with an IP address) and it seems to work fine. So I can only assume some particular condition on your side (when using "run" you are really using the same account than your app ?)

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