Getting the physical path of network drive.

[rony_16]

Hi ,
I am writing a program that part of than program if to add a new
network drive to the user.
The adding part i know how to do (by win api "WNetAddConnection2A") but
i want to check first if this path (network path) exist of his
computer, if it does , what is the drive name.
to do this i need some how to get the network drive on the local
computer by the network path (\\comp1\C$\reports).

How do i do that ?
some things that i found ...
* I think that i need to use "WNetGetResourceInformation" win api
function, but i can't find how to use it.

Please help, Rony

[CuriousGeorge]

dunno about WNetGetResourceInformation but probably worth looking at WMI, I
used it to resolve a UNC path to a local directory recently

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Hi ,
I am writing a program that part of than program if to add a new
network drive to the user.
The adding part i know how to do (by win api "WNetAddConnection2A") but
i want to check first if this path (network path) exist of his
computer, if it does , what is the drive name.
to do this i need some how to get the network drive on the local
computer by the network path (\\comp1\C$\reports).

How do i do that ?
some things that i found ...
* I think that i need to use "WNetGetResourceInformation" win api
function, but i can't find how to use it.

Please help, Rony

[rony_16]

And do i use it?


CuriousGeorge wrote:

dunno about WNetGetResourceInformation but probably worth looking at WMI, I
used it to resolve a UNC path to a local directory recently

"rony_16" <ro***********@gmail.comwrote in message
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Hi ,
I am writing a program that part of than program if to add a new
network drive to the user.
The adding part i know how to do (by win api "WNetAddConnection2A") but
i want to check first if this path (network path) exist of his
computer, if it does , what is the drive name.
to do this i need some how to get the network drive on the local
computer by the network path (\\comp1\C$\reports).

How do i do that ?
some things that i found ...
* I think that i need to use "WNetGetResourceInformation" win api
function, but i can't find how to use it.

Please help, Rony

[Sergey Poberezovskiy]

Rony,

I have not used it for quite a few years now, but I am pretty sure that we
used "net use" command and then inspected the output - this way you will be
able to tell whether a specific UNC is attached or not...

Just type "net use" or "net use ?" in your command prompt and see whether it
solves the problem for you.

HTH

"rony_16" wrote:

And do i use it?


CuriousGeorge wrote:

dunno about WNetGetResourceInformation but probably worth looking at WMI, I
used it to resolve a UNC path to a local directory recently

"rony_16" <ro***********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11*********************@m7g2000cwm.googlegrou ps.com...

Hi ,
I am writing a program that part of than program if to add a new
network drive to the user.
The adding part i know how to do (by win api "WNetAddConnection2A") but
i want to check first if this path (network path) exist of his
computer, if it does , what is the drive name.
to do this i need some how to get the network drive on the local
computer by the network path (\\comp1\C$\reports).
>
How do i do that ?
some things that i found ...
* I think that i need to use "WNetGetResourceInformation" win api
function, but i can't find how to use it.
>
Please help, Rony
>

[rony_16]

It works
Thanks,


Sergey Poberezovskiy wrote:

Rony,

I have not used it for quite a few years now, but I am pretty sure that we
used "net use" command and then inspected the output - this way you will be
able to tell whether a specific UNC is attached or not...

Just type "net use" or "net use ?" in your command prompt and see whether it
solves the problem for you.

HTH

"rony_16" wrote:

And do i use it?


CuriousGeorge wrote:

dunno about WNetGetResourceInformation but probably worth looking at WMI, I
used it to resolve a UNC path to a local directory recently
>
"rony_16" <ro***********@gmail.comwrote in message
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Hi ,
I am writing a program that part of than program if to add a new
network drive to the user.
The adding part i know how to do (by win api "WNetAddConnection2A") but
i want to check first if this path (network path) exist of his
computer, if it does , what is the drive name.
to do this i need some how to get the network drive on the local
computer by the network path (\\comp1\C$\reports).

How do i do that ?
some things that i found ...
* I think that i need to use "WNetGetResourceInformation" win api
function, but i can't find how to use it.

Please help, Rony