FindFirstFile failed on a network drive

Hi,

We have an app monitors one directory to pick up files, it works fine with local directories and some of the network directories on my other machine.

But it failed on our company's mapped dirve, I tried to debug it, suprised me, it worked fine with the debug version , but the same code, same directory, release version failed, it only gave me an error, "Access Denied" for "FindFirstFile".

I can access (read/write) that directory in the Windows Explorer, and tried to talk to our IT guys, they said nothing special on that folder priviledges.

So I hope someone here had some silimar experiences, tell me which direction should I go for? What could be the reason?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Helen

Helen that sounds akward, are you sure it's nothing else that's spooking you? Some times compilers can fool you by making all uninitalized variables to be zero in debug but not in release. Maybe that's what's make the differens?

S M A,

Thanks for the idea, I'm going to try that.

Thanks, Helen