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03/05/2004 15:12:27
 
 
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01/05/2004 08:48:21
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00900019
Message ID:
00900478
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Hi Jeffrey,

I'm not sure if you are asking if a drive letter exists or if a drive mapping exists since each user could have a network drive mapped to a different share. Here is what I use when I want to know if an actual path exists regardless of the drive letter it is mapped to (courtesy of many helpful UT members):
* Constants for drive types.
#DEFINE DRIVE_UNKNOWN 0
#DEFINE DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR 1
#DEFINE DRIVE_REMOVABLE 2
#DEFINE DRIVE_FIXED 3
#DEFINE DRIVE_REMOTE 4
#DEFINE DRIVE_CDROM 5
#DEFINE DRIVE_RAMDISK 6
#DEFINE CR CHR(13)

DECLARE INTEGER GetLogicalDrives IN Win32API
DECLARE INTEGER GetDriveType IN Win32API STRING RootPath

PRIVATE lcDrivestring, lcDriveRoot, liDrivelist, lcDrives, i
lcDrives = ""

* GetLogicalDrives returns a 32-bit value containing a list of
* available drives. If the specific bit is ON, the drive letter
* corresponding to that position exists.
liDrivelist = GetLogicalDrives()

* Check each of the bits
FOR i = 0 TO 31
	IF BITTEST(liDrivelist, i)
* If the 0th bit is ON, that means drive 'A:',
* the 2nd bit is 'C:", etc.
		lcDriveRoot = CHR(65 + i) + ":\"
* Perform a GetDriveType to determine if it is a floppy, CD, etc.
		lcDrivetype = GetDriveType(lcDriveRoot)
		DO CASE
			CASE lcDrivetype = DRIVE_UNKNOWN
				lcDrivestring = "Cannot be determined"
			CASE lcDrivetype = DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR
				lcDrivestring = "Root directory does not exist"
			CASE lcDrivetype = DRIVE_REMOVABLE
				lcDrivestring = "Floppy/removable drive"
			CASE lcDrivetype = DRIVE_FIXED
				lcDrivestring = "Hard drive/nonremovable drive"
			CASE lcDrivetype = DRIVE_REMOTE
				lcDrivestring = "Remote/Network drive"
				lcunc=GetUNCForDriveLetter(LEFT(lcDriveRoot,2))
				IF TYPE('lcunc')="C" .AND. !EMPTY(lcunc)
					lcDrivestring = lcunc
				ENDIF
			CASE lcDrivetype = DRIVE_CDROM
				lcDrivestring = "CD-ROM drive"
			CASE lcDrivetype = DRIVE_RAMDISK
				lcDrivestring = "RAM disk"
		ENDCASE
		lcDrives = lcDrives + lcDriveRoot + " " + lcDrivestring + CR
	ENDIF
NEXT

=MESSAGEBOX(lcDrives, ;
	0 + 64 + 0,'All Drives Listing')
RETURN


FUNCTION GetUNCForDriveLetter
LPARAMETER cDriveLetterToCheck
LOCAL cBuffer, nResult, lcunc
IF TYPE('cDriveLetterToCheck') # 'C' OR ;
		LEN(cDriveLetterToCheck) < 2 OR ;
		SUBSTR(cDriveLetterToCheck,2,1) # ':' OR ;
		! BETWEEN(UPPER(LEFT(cDriveLetterToCheck,1)),'A','Z')
	RETURN ''
ENDIF
DECLARE INTEGER WNetGetConnection IN Win32API ;
	STRING   @cLocalDrive, ;
	STRING   @cRemoteUNCBuffer, ;
	INTEGER  @nSizeOfBuffer
cBuffer = SPACE(511)
nResult = WNetGetConnection(LEFT(cDriveLetterToCheck,2), ;
	@cBuffer, ;
	511)
IF nResult # 0
*  Failed - it's probably not a mapped drive,
*  or nothing is mapped to it
	RETURN ''
ELSE
	lcunc=LEFT(cBuffer,AT(CHR(0),cBuffer)-1)
	RETURN lcunc
ENDIF
>Does anyone know how I can check to determine if a network drive exists or if the user is connected to the network where their application is located? I am using Vfp 7.0
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