Authenticated SMB Access

Hi there,
I'm developing an app that reads a plain text file from a remote AS400-
IFS Service (samba-like stuff I guess). The problem is that this
access is not allowed without authentication, and I cannot
authenticate the access from within my app (it's written in a very old
programming language and I cannot change :( ). I was wondering if it's
there any way to run my app from within an vbscript but call the app
just after I have authenticated into the IFS service.

There should be no difference from authenticating with a Windows-
running machine, it should be like accessing a password protected
shared folder on a remote Windows 2003 Server, for instance.

Thanks in advance.

A. Stukov.

Joe
Fri May 09 08:13:24 CDT 2008



"Aleksander Stukov" <AStukov@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:908f7299-37c8-4e47-99e4-db27f83e5048@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Hi there,
> I'm developing an app that reads a plain text file from a remote AS400-
> IFS Service (samba-like stuff I guess). The problem is that this
> access is not allowed without authentication, and I cannot
> authenticate the access from within my app (it's written in a very old
> programming language and I cannot change :( ). I was wondering if it's
> there any way to run my app from within an vbscript but call the app
> just after I have authenticated into the IFS service.
>
> There should be no difference from authenticating with a Windows-
> running machine, it should be like accessing a password protected
> shared folder on a remote Windows 2003 Server, for instance.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> A. Stukov.
Can you map a drive from Windows? If so use the FileSystemObject to map a
drive and pass use credentials.

--

Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name

Aleksander
Sun May 11 10:11:22 CDT 2008

On 9 mayo, 15:13, "Joe Fawcett" <joefawc...@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
> "Aleksander Stukov" <AStu...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:908f7299-37c8-4e47-99e4-db27f83e5048@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Hi there,
> > I'm developing an app that reads a plain text file from a remote AS400-
> > IFS Service (samba-like stuff I guess). The problem is that this
> > access is not allowed without authentication, and I cannot
> > authenticate the access from within my app (it's written in a very old
> > programming language and I cannot change :( ). I was wondering if it's
> > there any way to run my app from within an vbscript but call the app
> > just after I have authenticated into the IFS service.
>
> > There should be no difference from authenticating with a Windows-
> > running machine, it should be like accessing a password protected
> > shared folder on a remote Windows 2003 Server, for instance.
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> > A. Stukov.
>
> Can you map a drive from Windows? If so use the FileSystemObject to map a
> drive and pass use credentials.
>
> --
>
> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)http://joe.fawcett.name

Thanks, I'll try what you say.

Regards,