Adding network places to My Network Places

[Frank Hofmann]

Hi,

I'm trying to automatically add some LAN network places
to "My Network Places" of my W2K and WXP workstations.

I have searched through several documentations, but didn't
get a hint, how to do this. WSH obviously doesn't expose
an interface to do this.

The only think I have found, was a rundll32 command to
open the "A Network Place" wizard, but this is not what I
want.

Has any one a solution to this?

Thanks.

Frank Hofmann

[Marty List]

"Frank Hofmann" <fhof...@bmssys.de> wrote in message
news:0f0c01c38abe$96631100$a001...@phx.gbl...

I don't know of a supported, documented function to add these, but they are
just shell folders under
"%USERPROFILE%\NetHood\". You can create your own using a combination of
Desktop.ini and a .LNK shortcut.

The contents of desktop.ini tell Explorer to display different contents, so
the real folder contents are hidden from you. You need to poke around using
a command prompt:

C:\>Dir "%USERPROFILE%\NetHood\"
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is F021-FA97

Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Marty.OPTIMUMX\NetHood

09/17/2003 05:51 PM <DIR> .
09/17/2003 05:51 PM <DIR> ..
01/28/2003 06:35 PM <DIR> c$ on Starone
03/19/2003 08:47 AM <DIR> ftp.microsoft.com
09/17/2003 05:51 PM <DIR> ftp.symantec.com
05/04/2003 09:47 PM <DIR> Marty$ on File Server, MP3 Server
(Tool)
11/22/2002 09:05 PM <DIR> My Web Sites on MSN
0 File(s) 0 bytes
7 Dir(s) 3,143,852,032 bytes free

C:\>Dir "%USERPROFILE%\NetHood\ftp.microsoft.com"
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is F021-FA97

Directory of C:\Documents and
Settings\Marty.OPTIMUMX\NetHood\ftp.microsoft.com

03/19/2003 08:47 AM <DIR> .
03/19/2003 08:47 AM <DIR> ..
03/19/2003 08:47 AM 75 Desktop.ini
03/19/2003 08:47 AM 190 target.lnk
2 File(s) 265 bytes
2 Dir(s) 3,143,852,032 bytes free

C:\>Type "%USERPROFILE%\NetHood\ftp.microsoft.com\Desktop.ini"
[.ShellClassInfo]
CLSID2={0AFACED1-E828-11D1-9187-B532F1E9575D}
Flags=2