Getting File Owner with .NET 2

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

14 Mar 2006 9:29 PM

John G

I have the following VB.NET code (VS2005) to get the owner of a file. It
works fine on my PC but I get exception errors when accessing mapped drives.
Documentation on the new classes is non-existant. strFile is a full path and
filename.

       Private Function GetFileOwner(ByVal strFile As String) As String
        Dim FS As FileSecurity = File.GetAccessControl(strFile)
        Dim owner As Security.Principal.NTAccount =
CType(FS.GetOwner(GetType(Security.Principal.NTAccount)),
Security.Principal.NTAccount)

        Return owner.ToString End Function

Any help would be appreciated.

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John G