Computer A is running an application that needs to find a certain file in an
FTP site folder that is also on computer A.
The user that is logged on to computer A is the domain administrator (the
computer runs 24-7 without user interaction)
The FTP site folder the program looks at is restricted access. Only users
with the username and password given them and part of the local users group
can see its contents and download from it or upload to it.
In addition the domain administrators and authenticated users have full
access to the FTP folder.
However when my program tries to find a folder with a certain name, and I
can see that it is there and the name and location are correct, the program
returns false.

The code is
Private Function FileExists(ByVal fileName As String) As Boolean

'Arguments : fileName - Name & Location of the file to check

'Returns : True if the caller has the required permissions

' and path contains the name of an existing file;

' otherwise, False. This method also returns false

' if path is a null reference (Nothing in Visual

' Basic) or a zero-length string.

Return System.IO.File.Exists(fileName)

End Function

Since this function returns True in my test environment where I do not have
the same restrictions on the FTP test folder My suspicion is that the caller
does not have appropriate permissions to view the folder's contents.
Question is what permission do I have to set to allow this access to the FTP
folder for my application?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

RD