Re: NetBIOS Path Strings and Drive Letter Assignments

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From: John Murphy
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 19:11

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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.

Murf

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Subject: Re: NetBIOS Path Strings and Drive Letter Assignments
Date: 22 Jan 1996 19:11:58 GMT
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