Re: RPG400-L Digest, Vol 3, Issue 556

[Edwin Davidson <EDavidson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I understand it, when you use RUN AS, you do not get the mapped 
drives when ran under a different profile.

As an example, I run Mozilla under RUN AS.  Mozilla cannot see any of my 
mapped drives because it isn't running
under my authority.  The mapped drives are specific to my profile and 
it's login script.  When you RUN AS, you
are running under a different authority.

What you need to do is modify your VB to map the drives.  This way, when 
the VB app launches the mapped drives
will connect using the RUN AS credentials.

See:
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_map_network_drive.html
or
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+map+a+drive+in+VB&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


Another thing you could do is not map the drives until VB launches.  
When it launches, prompt the user for their AS/400
password.  When you do the

If WNetAddConnection(share_name, password, _
       drive_letter) > 0 _

use the password they entered into Vb.  Assumptions are made that you know this 
exposes the
password to security hacks by storing it in memory as well as swap file., so 
you would want
to fill the variable with random characters, then clear it out, as soon as the 
mapping is made.





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