Drive Letter Property 
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 Drive Letter Property

Hi,
I have successfully used the DriveLetter property to get a list of the local
drives:
Dim fs, d, dc
    Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set dc = fs.Drives
For Each d In dc
    If d.DriveType = 2 Then
         k = k + 1
        strLocalDrive(k) = d.driveletter & ":\"
    End If
Next

It works great!

Then I needed to know if a network share was associated with the right
letter. I used vb help and found the following sub:

Sub ShowDriveLetter(drvpath)
    Dim fs, d, s
    Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set d = fs.GetDrive(fs.GetDriveName(drvpath))
    s = "Drive " & d.driveletter & ": - "
    s = s & d.VolumeName & vbCrLf
    s = s & "Free Space: " & FormatNumber(d.FreeSpace / 1024, 0)
    s = s & " Kbytes"
    MsgBox s
    Debug.Print d.driveletter
End Sub

I used it in my code as follow:
Dim fs, d, s
    Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set d = fs.GetDrive(fs.GetDriveName("\\smb\Uhome"))
    s = d.driveletter

s does not return "N" as it should, but returns an empty string. Why?

Thanks for your help in advance.



Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:51:10 GMT  
 
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