VB/WinAPI, Getting Short Path Names from Long

Getting Short Path Names from Long

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Tarek Haoul #1 / 5	Getting Short Path Names from Long Please Help, I have a problem i am trying to retrieve a Short Path name from a Mapped Network Path (resource located on Win95 OSR2 with Fat32 Partition) from a Winnt 4.0 Computer I have the code that retrieves that Short Path Name, the problem is that this code only seems to only work on local Long file names when using it on NT 4. This problem only exists on NT 4, the code works perfectly on Win95. eg. Win95 Box Shares c:\Test Winnt box Maps c:\test as d: Inside c:\test there is a folder called Program Files, so the mapped path would be d:\program files .... i need to retrieve the short path name which would be d:\progra~1 This works across a win95 network , but accross Nt i dont even get a path. If anyone knows of another API that can be used to retrieve the information, i would love to find out. Thankyou Tarek
Thu, 25 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

Kim Dobransk #2 / 5	Getting Short Path Names from Long Private Declare Function GetShortPathName Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetShortPathNameA" (ByVal lpszLongPath As String, ByVal lpszShortPath As String, ByVal cchBuffer As Long) As Long Dim LongPath As String Dim ShortPath As String Dim ShortPathLength As Long Dim BufSize As Long Dim returnVal As Long Dim ShortPathTemp As String * 255 BufSize = Len(ShortPathTemp) LongPath = "c:\Program Files" ShortPathLength = GetShortPathName(LongPath, ShortPathTemp, BufSize) ShortPath = Left$(ShortPathTemp, ShortPathLength) If you have any questions about this code, please feel free to e-mail. -- Kim Dobranski Software Engineer Hansen Software Development Corp. http://www.HansenSoftware.com British Columbia Canada Super, Natural British Columbia. ****************************** E-mail: ****************************** Quote: >Please Help, >I have a problem i am trying to retrieve a Short Path name from a Mapped >Network Path (resource located on Win95 OSR2 with Fat32 Partition) from a >Winnt 4.0 Computer >I have the code that retrieves that Short Path Name, the problem is that >this code only seems to only work on local Long file names when using it on >NT 4. This problem only exists on NT 4, the code works perfectly on Win95. >eg. >Win95 Box Shares c:\Test >Winnt box Maps c:\test as d: >Inside c:\test there is a folder called Program Files, so the mapped path >would be >d:\program files .... i need to retrieve the short path name which would be >d:\progra~1 >This works across a win95 network , but accross Nt i dont even get a path. >If anyone knows of another API that can be used to retrieve the information, >i would love to find out. >Thankyou >Tarek
Thu, 25 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

Tarek Haoul #3 / 5	Getting Short Path Names from Long I thank you for the code you have provided ... but it does not work across Win95 --> winnt Network .... the windows nt computer returns nothing. kim i thank you for your support ... but i have the same sort of code in use already.... my problem is that this code does not work accross the network .... the code will give you c:\progra~1 ....... this works across Windows 95 computers on a network, but seems to return nothing across a Windows NT and Windows 95 network. I am dumbfounded...... please help... If you have a win95 computer with fat32 connected to a Win NT server, share a folder on a win95 computer ... mapp the drive on Nt and run the code ..... it will fail. Thank you Tarek Quote: >Private Declare Function GetShortPathName Lib "kernel32" Alias >"GetShortPathNameA" (ByVal lpszLongPath As String, ByVal lpszShortPath As >String, ByVal cchBuffer As Long) As Long >Dim LongPath As String >Dim ShortPath As String >Dim ShortPathLength As Long >Dim BufSize As Long >Dim returnVal As Long >Dim ShortPathTemp As String * 255 >BufSize = Len(ShortPathTemp) >LongPath = "c:\Program Files" >ShortPathLength = GetShortPathName(LongPath, ShortPathTemp, BufSize) >ShortPath = Left$(ShortPathTemp, ShortPathLength) >If you have any questions about this code, please feel free to e-mail. >-- >Kim Dobranski >Software Engineer >Hansen Software Development Corp. >http://www.HansenSoftware.com >British Columbia >Canada >Super, Natural British Columbia. >****************************** >E-mail: >****************************** >>Please Help, >>I have a problem i am trying to retrieve a Short Path name from a Mapped >>Network Path (resource located on Win95 OSR2 with Fat32 Partition) from a >>Winnt 4.0 Computer >>I have the code that retrieves that Short Path Name, the problem is that >>this code only seems to only work on local Long file names when using it on >>NT 4. This problem only exists on NT 4, the code works perfectly on Win95. >>eg. >>Win95 Box Shares c:\Test >>Winnt box Maps c:\test as d: >>Inside c:\test there is a folder called Program Files, so the mapped path >>would be >>d:\program files .... i need to retrieve the short path name which would be >>d:\progra~1 >>This works across a win95 network , but accross Nt i dont even get a path. >>If anyone knows of another API that can be used to retrieve the >information, >>i would love to find out. >>Thankyou >>Tarek
Fri, 26 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

Jeremy Adam #4 / 5	Getting Short Path Names from Long Tarek, You may want to look at Brad Martinez's undoc shell example on his web site at: http://members.aol.com/btmtz/vb/index.htm I believe that it has some functions that might help - you might want to talk to Brad and see what ideas he has. Jeremy Adams CCRP: http://www.zeode-sd.com/ccrp Quote: >I thank you for the code you have provided ... but it does not work across >Win95 --> winnt Network .... the windows nt computer returns nothing. >kim i thank you for your support ... but i have the same sort of code in use >already.... my problem is that this code does not work accross the network >.... the code will give you c:\progra~1 ....... this works across Windows 95 >computers on a network, but seems to return nothing across a Windows NT and >Windows 95 network. >I am dumbfounded...... please help... >If you have a win95 computer with fat32 connected to a Win NT server, share >a folder on a win95 computer ... mapp the drive on Nt and run the code ..... >it will fail. >Thank you >Tarek >>Private Declare Function GetShortPathName Lib "kernel32" Alias >>"GetShortPathNameA" (ByVal lpszLongPath As String, ByVal lpszShortPath As >>String, ByVal cchBuffer As Long) As Long >>Dim LongPath As String >>Dim ShortPath As String >>Dim ShortPathLength As Long >>Dim BufSize As Long >>Dim returnVal As Long >>Dim ShortPathTemp As String * 255 >>BufSize = Len(ShortPathTemp) >>LongPath = "c:\Program Files" >>ShortPathLength = GetShortPathName(LongPath, ShortPathTemp, BufSize) >>ShortPath = Left$(ShortPathTemp, ShortPathLength) >>If you have any questions about this code, please feel free to e-mail. >>-- >>Kim Dobranski >>Software Engineer >>Hansen Software Development Corp. >>http://www.HansenSoftware.com >>British Columbia >>Canada >>Super, Natural British Columbia. >>****************************** >>E-mail: >>****************************** >>>Please Help, >>>I have a problem i am trying to retrieve a Short Path name from a Mapped >>>Network Path (resource located on Win95 OSR2 with Fat32 Partition) from a >>>Winnt 4.0 Computer >>>I have the code that retrieves that Short Path Name, the problem is that >>>this code only seems to only work on local Long file names when using it >on >>>NT 4. This problem only exists on NT 4, the code works perfectly on Win95. >>>eg. >>>Win95 Box Shares c:\Test >>>Winnt box Maps c:\test as d: >>>Inside c:\test there is a folder called Program Files, so the mapped path >>>would be >>>d:\program files .... i need to retrieve the short path name which would >be >>>d:\progra~1 >>>This works across a win95 network , but accross Nt i dont even get a path. >>>If anyone knows of another API that can be used to retrieve the >>information, >>>i would love to find out. >>>Thankyou >>>Tarek
Fri, 26 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

Arthur Mark #5 / 5	Getting Short Path Names from Long I don't know much about these functions and whether they work on 95 and NT, but the type WIN32_FIND_DATA gives the short name as variable cAlternate. Declare Function FindFirstFile Lib "kernel32" Alias "FindFirstFileA" (ByVal lpFileName As String, _ lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long Declare Function FindNextFile Lib "kernel32" Alias "FindNextFileA" (ByVal hFindFile As Long, _ lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long Type WIN32_FIND_DATA dwFileAttributes As Long ftCreationTime As FILETIME ftLastAccessTime As FILETIME ftLastWriteTime As FILETIME nFileSizeHigh As Long nFileSizeLow As Long dwReserved0 As Long dwReserved1 As Long cFileName As String * max_path cAlternate As String * 14 End Type Art.
Fri, 26 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

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