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Mapping network drive in Windows2000
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Visual FoxPro
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Windows API functions
Miscellaneous
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00718773
Message ID:
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>Hi all,
>I have used an API function to map a network drive and it works nicely when run on Win9x. However, it fails on Windows2000.
>The function I used (see below) appears to be a 16 bit API call. Has anyone had any luck implementing this on Windows2000? Or, some other alternative?
>
>FUNCTION ConnectToDrive
>PARAMETERS tcPath, tcPassword, tcDrvLetter
>
> PRIVATE ALL LIKE j*
> jcPath = tcPath
> jcPassword = tcPassword
> jcDrvLetter = tcDrvLetter
>
> DECLARE Integer WNetAddConnection IN Win32api string, string, string
>
> jnConnected = WNetAddConnection(jcPath, jcPassword, jcDrvLetter)
>RETURN IIF(jnConnected = 0, .T., .F.)

In addition to the WSH, there's a working example of WNetAddConnection3() in my NETRESOURCE class (in the downloads section) which allows you to give name, password and domain information rather than relying on the data in your Windows login, and is a Win32 API call rather than a legacy call from Win16.
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