File Copy

Question

Hello I want to do a small program (C#) that allows me to copy some files from one computer to another.(the computers are in the same local network). How can I do this? can you give me an example? some classes that do that? thanks

Lalit M · Answer

You can also try this code sample public void ftpfile(string ftpfilepath string inputfilepath) { string ftphost = 127.0.0.1; //here correct hostname or IP of the ftp server to be given string ftpfullpath = ftp:// + ftphost + ftpfilepath; FtpWebRequest ftp = (FtpWebRequest)FtpWebRequest.Create(ftpfullpath); ftp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userid password); //userid and password for the ftp server to given ftp.KeepAlive = true; ftp.UseBinary = true; ftp.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile; FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(inputfilepath); byte[] buffer = new byte[fs.Length]; fs.Read(buffer 0 buffer.Length); fs.Close(); Stream ftpstream = ftp.GetRequestStream(); ftpstream.Write(buffer 0 buffer.Length); ftpstream.Close(); }

Lalit M · Answer

You can use the Copy() method of the File object which is in the System.IO namespace. You could map a drive to the remote computer then use: File.Copy(@c:\myfile.txt@driveletter:\myfile.txt); replacing driveletter with the letter you assigned when mapping the drive. or you can use UNC paths: File.Copy(@c:\myfile.txt@\machinename\c$\myfile.txt); this would copy myfile.txt from your local C:\ drive to the remote machines C:\ drive this would require admin permissions as it uses the C$ admin share on the remote machine.