I'm trying to create an append-only audit log in our VB6 app that would reside on a share folder. I'm first trying to get it working on a local file and I have the NTFS permissions with "Create folders / append data" checked and "Create files / write data" unchecked, but I'm getting a permission denied error when opening the file for Append. I don't want the users to be able to modify the existing log entries.
Log NTFS permissions

VB6 code:
Private Sub WriteTextToFile(text As String, filePath As String)
Dim fileNumber As Integer
' Open the file for writing
fileNumber = FreeFile
Open filePath For Append As fileNumber
' Write the text to the file
Print #fileNumber, text
' Close the file
Close fileNumber
End Sub
I'm having the same issue in VB.NET as well:
Private Sub AppendTextToFile(text As String, filePath As String)
Try
' Use StreamWriter with Append mode
Using writer As New StreamWriter(filePath, True)
' Write the text to the end of the file
writer.WriteLine(text)
End Using
MessageBox.Show("Text appended to file successfully!", "Success", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information)
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show("Error: " & ex.Message, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
End Try
End Sub