Questions tagged [network-share]
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Concurrency in a GIT repo on a network shared folder
I want to have a bare git repository stored on a (windows) network share. I use linux, and have the said network share mounted with CIFS. My coleague uses windows xp, and has the network share automounted (from ActiveDirectory, somehow) as a network…

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Security warning when opening file from network share
I've created a setup executable which I have signed. It's located on a network share (which I access using unc - \server\share\setup.exe).
When I double click the executable file, I get a Windows warning saying:
Title: Open File -> Security…

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TortoiseSVN 1.7 extremely slow on commit and check modifications on network share
This issue is related for operations with TortoiseSVN 1.7 only and on network share only.
On the dev server I have an svn working copy where I can commit something and then update on production server.
Sometimes when all active sessions on the dev…

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Access a Remote Directory from C#
I am trying to access a remote network share from a C# program in asp.net. What I need is something like
function download(dirname)
{
directory = (This is the part I don't know how to do)
for dir in directory:
download(dir);
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HTML links to local network shares
Why do these links not work? If I click on them in FF or Chrome, nothing happens - it doesn't even try to open them!
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Python 2: Get network share path from drive letter
If I use the following to get the list of all connected drives:
available_drives = ['%s:' % d for d in string.ascii_uppercase if os.path.exists('%s:' % d)]
How do I get the UNC path of the connected drives?
os.path just returns z:\ instead of…

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Enumerating network shares
Is there a part of the .net framework that enumerates the file shares on a host? I've found some things that use the WMI, but I'd prefer not to go that route.

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Exception when specifying defaultProxy in app.config when running NET4.0 application from network share
We're seeing a very strange issue when running the following application from a network share under NET4.0. When specifying a defaultProxy section in app.config a System.Net.WebException is thrown. There is no problem when running from a local…

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Windows - Does accessing data through "localhost" incur network stack overhead
I have a large number of audio files I am running through a processing algorithm to attempt to extract certain bits of data from it (ie: average volume of the entire clip). I have a number of build scripts that previously pulled the input data from…

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How to display network shares using JFileChooser in Java 9+?
The users of our software need to browse network shares on Windows 10 in our Java swing application, however swing's JFileChooser does not have this capability by default.
In this related post
How to navigate to a network host in JFileChooser?
A…

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Connecting to a remote shared folder results in "multiple connections not allowed" error, but trying to disconnect causes "connection does not exist"
I have a shared network folder \\some.domain.net\Shared that contains multiple shared subfolders with different permissions for different users. I wish to open connections to multiple subfolders from the same Windows account, but with different…

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svn repository on Windows network share
Is it safe for multiple computers to concurrently access an svn repository stored on a shared filesystem?
I'm building an application in which each Windows client machine has a local working set of files, and can periodically synchronize with the…

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Is Git over Network Share possible?
Is it possible to share a Git repository in Windows network?
If I add remote origin located in windows shared folder - would this solution work normally?

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Cannot access files on drive mapped network share from a Windows service
I have a network shared folder mapped to a drive letter, which is accessible from Windows Explorer, from the command prompt as well as from my WinForms application without problem. It is also accessible from my Windows service using a UNC…

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Executable started by a windows service using the local system account cannot access network shares
I have an executable that is started by a windows service, this program will be run on a customers machine and will need to connect to a remote share to perform a particular task. This share is specified by the customer via a UI, so we do not know…

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