Is there a way to get the share name of a local drive?

I need to pass a local drive's UNC  to a server.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Check this Page

http://personal.redestb.es/varela/visual.htm

Contain some examples that you need

This only works for mapped network drives.  I need one that will give me
what my C drive's share name is.

Hi, Gennie.

Some quoted text makes it easier to see what you're responding to.

You could use the GetComputerName API to return the name of NetBios name of
the local machine, then append the drive to it.

Add the API to a module :

Public Declare Function GetComputerName Lib "kernel32" Alias
"GetComputerNameA" _
                        (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

To get the computer name use :

Private Function LocalComputerName() As String

    Dim ret As Long
    Dim lpBuffer As String

    lpBuffer = String(128, 0)

    ret = GetComputerName(lpBuffer, 1024)
    LocalComputerName = lpBuffer

End Function

Something like the following should work :

UNCname = "//" & GetComputerName & "/" & <drive letter>

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Regards, Paul.

www.gooch.co.uk

Hi Paul!

I've already tried this and this is precisely why I need the share name of
my c drive.  The c drive may not necessarily be named the same.   When you
share your c drive, you can name it however you want.  This is separate from
the administrative share.  I need to create the UNC of my C drive how it is
viewed from the network.  I've noticed that getting the sharename of a drive
is limited only to a remote drive.

Thanks for your patience.

Gennie

I already found a solution from another newsgroup.
Here it is...

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Look in registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\LanmanServer\Shares
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Hi, Gennie.

That may work for you, but it isn't going to be reliable on all systems. I
don't have that registry key, so it wouldn't work for me.

WNetGetUniversalName looks as though it should do what you want, but I've
yet to figure out how to get it working.

Anyone out there have any info on this API ?

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Regards, Paul.

www.gooch.co.uk

Just so you don't waste too much time on the API call, it doesn't work
under Win95. See
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q131/4/16.asp for more
details.

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