Accessing a Windows UNC Share with Credentials

[gray skiff]

Hello! I should preface this by saying I'm not really all too familiar with Windows development.

I need to access a UNC network path but provide custom credentials, as my application is running as the local service account and there's no easy way for me to change this right now. This means I need to read files from an UNC share but provide a username / password that is not the user that my app runs with.

I couldn't really find any resources on this, could anybody point me in the right direction?

[mental valley]

You would probably need to use something like WNetUseConnectionW to connect to the remote https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/api/winnetwk/nf-winnetwk-wnetuseconnectionw