How to rename shares/directories

[Jeremy Chapman]

Given a path, is it possible to programatically determine if that path is a
share, or an actuall directory?
Then, if it is a share, how do I rename it? and how do I determine what
directory it points to?

[Chris Taylor]

Hi,

To work with shares you can use the WNetXXX functions provided in mpr.dll.
Here is an example using WNetGetConnection to determine what resource a
share is mapped to.

[DllImport("mpr.dll")]
public extern static short WNetGetConnection(
string lpLocalName,
StringBuilder lpRemoteName,
ref short lpnLength );

use it as follows

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(256);
short len = 256;

short err = WNetGetConnection( "Z:", sb, ref len );

If 'Z:' in this case is a network share, sb will contain the path (assuming
the sb is big enough), other wise you will get an error, take a look in
WinError.h for the error numbers. ERROR_NOT_CONNECTED (2250) will be
returned if 'Z:' does not map to a network resource.

You can use WNetCancelConnection to delete a network share and
WNetAddConnection/2/3 to add a new share.

Hope this helps

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[Michael Bray]

"Chris Taylor" <chris_t...@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> To work with shares you can use the WNetXXX functions provided in
> mpr.dll. Here is an example using WNetGetConnection to determine what
> resource a share is mapped to.

You can also enumerate the items returned by WMI's Win32_Share container.
This eliminates the need to do your own PInvoke (I would think that
System.Management WMI functions are just wrappers, but either way WMI is a
nice way to get this info.)

-mdb

[Chris Taylor]

Hi,

That is 100% correct. However, if I am not mistaken there is no way to
create shares using WMI, that is why I believe the WNet* functions are
required for this purpose.

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[Jeremy Chapman]

I got WMI to create a share. Thanks for the info guys.

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