Accessing files to network with different credential

[Costas]

//source - http://stackoverflow.com/a/7250145
//the same author, created a github point - https://github.com/mj1856/SimpleImpersonation 
//and a NuGet - https://nuget.org/packages/SimpleImpersonation

//use of
using (new Impersonation(domain, username, password))
{
    // do whatever you want
}

//the class
using System;
using System.Runtime.ConstrainedExecution;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Security;
using System.Security.Permissions;
using System.Security.Principal;
using Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles;

namespace MyApplication
{
    [PermissionSet(SecurityAction.Demand, Name = "FullTrust")]
    public class Impersonation : IDisposable
    {
        private readonly SafeTokenHandle _handle;
        private readonly WindowsImpersonationContext _context;

        const int LOGON32_LOGON_NEW_CREDENTIALS = 9;

        public Impersonation(string domain, string username, string password)
        {
            var ok = LogonUser(username, domain, password,
                           LOGON32_LOGON_NEW_CREDENTIALS, 0, out this._handle);
            if (!ok)
            {
                var errorCode = Marshal.GetLastWin32Error();
                throw new ApplicationException(string.Format("Could not impersonate the elevated user.  LogonUser returned error code {0}.", errorCode));
            }

            this._context = WindowsIdentity.Impersonate(this._handle.DangerousGetHandle());
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            this._context.Dispose();
            this._handle.Dispose();
        }

        [DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
        private static extern bool LogonUser(String lpszUsername, String lpszDomain, String lpszPassword, int dwLogonType, int dwLogonProvider, out SafeTokenHandle phToken);

        public sealed class SafeTokenHandle : SafeHandleZeroOrMinusOneIsInvalid
        {
            private SafeTokenHandle()
                : base(true) { }

            [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
            [ReliabilityContract(Consistency.WillNotCorruptState, Cer.Success)]
            [SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity]
            [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
            private static extern bool CloseHandle(IntPtr handle);

            protected override bool ReleaseHandle()
            {
                return CloseHandle(handle);
            }
        }
    }
}

firstly I tried this piece of code. If you accessing a network share if different credentials that the one is stored, you have to delete via the DOS command <code>net use * /delete</code>

//src - https://gist.github.com/AlanBarber/92db36339a129b94b7dd
//NetworkConnection.cs
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Net;

    public class NetworkConnection : IDisposable
    {
        readonly string _networkName;

        public NetworkConnection(string networkName, NetworkCredential credentials)
        {
            _networkName = networkName;

            var netResource = new NetResource
            {
                Scope = ResourceScope.GlobalNetwork,
                ResourceType = ResourceType.Disk,
                DisplayType = ResourceDisplaytype.Share,
                RemoteName = networkName
            };

            var userName = string.IsNullOrEmpty(credentials.Domain)
                ? credentials.UserName
                : string.Format(@"{0}\{1}", credentials.Domain, credentials.UserName);

            var result = WNetAddConnection2(
                netResource,
                credentials.Password,
                userName,
                0);

            if (result != 0)
            {
                throw new Win32Exception(result, "Error connecting to remote share");
            }
        }

        ~NetworkConnection()
        {
            Dispose(false);
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            Dispose(true);
            GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
        }

        protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            WNetCancelConnection2(_networkName, 0, true);
        }

        [DllImport("mpr.dll")]
        private static extern int WNetAddConnection2(NetResource netResource,
            string password, string username, int flags);

        [DllImport("mpr.dll")]
        private static extern int WNetCancelConnection2(string name, int flags,
            bool force);

        [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
        public class NetResource
        {
            public ResourceScope Scope;
            public ResourceType ResourceType;
            public ResourceDisplaytype DisplayType;
            public int Usage;
            public string LocalName;
            public string RemoteName;
            public string Comment;
            public string Provider;
        }

        public enum ResourceScope : int
        {
            Connected = 1,
            GlobalNetwork,
            Remembered,
            Recent,
            Context
        };

        public enum ResourceType : int
        {
            Any = 0,
            Disk = 1,
            Print = 2,
            Reserved = 8,
        }

        public enum ResourceDisplaytype : int
        {
            Generic = 0x0,
            Domain = 0x01,
            Server = 0x02,
            Share = 0x03,
            File = 0x04,
            Group = 0x05,
            Network = 0x06,
            Root = 0x07,
            Shareadmin = 0x08,
            Directory = 0x09,
            Tree = 0x0a,
            Ndscontainer = 0x0b
        }
    }

//Program.cs
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;    
    
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
          //warning the folder string must not end \, otherwise will be an error
          var networkPath = @"\\server\share";
          var credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
          
          using (new NetworkConnection(networkPath, credentials))
          {
            var fileList = Directory.GetFiles(networkPath);
          }
          
          foreach (var file in fileList)
          {
              Console.WriteLine("{0}", Path.GetFileName(file));
          }          
        }
    }