Michel,

Yes, using UNC does work. Thanks for the help.

Jerry


>>Using VS2005 on XP PRO SP2.
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>>I have two ASP.Net web applications on my dev pc. My web app 1 can NOT check for the existence of a file on our network drive. But my web app 2 can check for the existence of a file on the same network drive.
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>>What would cause this and how do I correct this?
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>>Here is the code I use to check for a file. This file does exist but web app 1 returns false, web app 2 returns true.
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>>if (System.IO.File.Exists("F:\data\somefile.txt") == true)
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>Can you try using UNC?