Question

My code can be found here c# asp.net FTP Error
I am trying to download a file from an FTP server when I try to download it it says I do not have access I have been googling this all morning and have not had any luck. I went to the designated folder and added Everyone with full permissions hoping I was missing a user and that did not work. I tried giving full permissions to myself, Anonymous user, network service, and a few other users that I have found. I have tried using

<identity impersonate="true" />

and

<identity impersonate="true" userName="myfullusername" password="mypassword"/>

I am still not having any luck the full error I get is:

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path ‘C:\Users\myname\Documents’ is denied. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath)

any help I get is greatly appreciated Thank you all.

Answer 1

I suspect the error is due to creating a file stream out of a path that is a folder. Check the line where you construct your FileStream with a debugger to see what is getting passed in.

Here is an example I ran on my machine:

// "Access to the path 'C:\users\myid\Documents' is denied."
var nostream = new System.IO.FileStream(@"C:\users\myid\Documents", FileMode.Create);

// OK
var okstream = new System.IO.FileStream(@"C:\users\myid\Documents\myfile.txt", FileMode.Create);

By the by, and you may already know, you can conveniently combine paths without having to worry about the direction of the slash, or whether the left-hand-side has a trailing slash, using System.IO.Path.

Path.Combine(@"C:\users\myid\Documents", "myfile.txt");

I hope this helps. Good luck!