NetBIOS Path Strings and Drive Letter Assignments

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From: Patrick Whittle
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 23:06

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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??

Please respond to patrick@xiris.com

Thanks ......... PW



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Subject: NetBIOS Path Strings and Drive Letter Assignments
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 23:06:52 GMT
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