Hi Mathias,

I always decode any mapping and store the UNC path. I published a routine to do this in FoxTalk in 1998. It's also available on my web site (http://www.civilsolutions.com.au/publications/)

Cheers,

Andrew

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>Thanks.
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>Thats what we've actually done. But it gets tricky where users have specified explicit paths including drive letters.
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>>>I need help please.
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>>>I have a program where the user may specify the data path to a directory on a mapped drive. Then I open a table in the specified directory and look in a field say cDataPath that contains something like "D:\Data".
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>>>But this D is local to the machine that created the data in the first place. So I need to be able to check that I am actually mapped to this D and use my reference drive letter to access data in the d:\data directory. If my pc is not mapped to the D drive in question I need to know that, map it, used the assigned drive letter to access data.
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>>>Any help, ideas or better ways of trying to achieve this?
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>>>Thanks
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>>Mathias,
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>>The Windows Script Host provides a method of mapping drives and I belive that Ed Rauh's NETRESOURCE class does this as well (requires his CLSHEAP). However, if this is a network environment, why not access the data via the UNC?