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- From: murf@perftech.com (John Murphy)
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- Subject: Re: NetBIOS Path Strings and Drive Letter Assignments
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 19:11:58 GMT
- Organization: Performance Technology Inc
- Message-ID: <4e0nhu$i9i@ibm32.perftech.com>
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- In article <4dp4l2$bcf@noc.tor.hookup.net>, patrick@xiris.com says...
- >
- >Hi:
- >
- >I am developing an application that accesses a share on our server
- >using a NetBIOS path string (i.e. \\SHARE\NAME\<path>\file.ext).
- >I want to use this path string because the share name will not change,
- >
- >whereas the drive letter assignment a given user uses could at any
- >time change. However, there is still a situation where I could make
- >use of an API call that returns a drive letter being used.
- >
- >Do you know of an API call that returns network drive letter
- >assignments? Is there a way to find out what drive is connected to
- >\\SHARE\NAME for example, using the API interface??
- >
- Check into Int21-5F02.
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- Murf
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