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Hello geeks,

Im working on a rather unknown territory of programming ie. which I have 
never done before. I have to communicate with a driver file which are 
obviously written in C. To load this driver I went thru all the forums, 
help, google everything on internet and finally converted the original 
CPP code that was loading the driver following the standard procedures 
of loading a driver ie.

1) Open service manager by using OpenSCManager API -> works fine
2) create a kernel service with CreateService API -> works fine
3) Start the service by using StartService API -> works fine
4) close service handles
5) Open the driver file by using CreateFile API -> here where the 
problem starts :(

When I try to use CreateFile api it return INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, i have 
gone through piles of code on the net both covering Delphi and CPP which 
use this api and Im following the same standards, but yet I can open the 
device? here's the code for opening the device:

function NDISOpenControlChannel(): boolean;
var
   DesiredAccess: DWORD;
   ShareMode: DWORD;
   lpSecurityAttributes: PSecurityAttributes;
   CreationDistribution: DWORD;
   FlagsAndAttributes: DWORD;
   TemplateFile: THandle;
begin
   DesiredAccess := (GENERIC_READ) or (GENERIC_WRITE);
   ShareMode := 0;
   CreationDistribution := OPEN_EXISTING;
   FlagsAndAttributes := FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL;
   TemplateFile := INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
   hChannel  := CreateFile(PChar('\\.\NDISHook'), DesiredAccess, ShareMode,
     lpSecurityAttributes, CreationDistribution, FlagsAndAttributes, 0);
   //-- Special Handling For Accessing Device On Windows 2000 Terminal 
Server
   //-- See Microsoft KB Article 259131 for reference
   if hChannel = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE then
   begin
     hChannel := CreateFile(PChar('\\.\Globals\NDISHook'), DesiredAccess,
       ShareMode, lpSecurityAttributes, CreationDistribution,
       FlagsAndAttributes, TemplateFile);
   end;
   if hChannel = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE then
     Result := False
   else
     Result := True;
end;

While I debug this code it always returns INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE I dont 
seriously know why? I can startup the driver service successfully cause 
I can see that driver listed in NirSoft ServiWin (nice tool to see 
drivers and windows services). I use BD7 and this driver file is located 
in the application directory and I dont think that can cause this issue 
cause it gets loaded successfully as a driver service. Can you guys help 
me what am I doing wrong here?

Thanks all,