Invalid path error when FileSystemWatcher points to a network location

[srivalli9]

Hi,

I have written a Windows Service.
This has a "FileSystemWatcher" component in it whose path is set to a
network folder.
[Ex: \\someNetworkMachineName\Folder1\]
This basically fires an event when the content of the network folder are
modified.
But after I installed the service and tried to start the service, I got the "invalid path" error.
Please note that everything works fine if I replace the path to a
network folder with that of a local folder.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Srivalli.

 

[Shurikn]

You probably have tough about all this but just in case,
do you have acess to the network folder?
if you need to enter a password and a username to conect to it, under windows you have to redo it everytime.
maybe you already tough of this and you are entering a password everytime, but its not written there so im asking anyway...

another way to do it would maybe to create a virtual drive to the folder...