Issuing Novell netware commands from within a C++ program.

[Kabbal]

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Hello,<br>
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I'm hoping someone out there can offer some advice on a problem I'm having. I need to write a program that can map to a LAN, get a directory listing from various parts of that network, and then make some assesments of the files found based on the time/date stamps.<br>
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The assesment portion of the program should be pretty straight forward, but I have no idea how to get the program to map the drives, or even generate the directory listings for that matter. Granted, I could use a series of batch files to map the drives and send the directory listings to text files for later use by the program, but that seems a rather inellegant way to do things. Besides, I'm not sure how I'd even call one of the batch files from within the C++ program.<br>
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Any advice would be greatly appreciated.<br>
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If it helps, below is the batch file equivalent of what I'd like this program to do...<br>
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attach s:=[server name]/sys:comm\from_hq /[user name] &lt;[password]<br>
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s:<br>
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dir &gt;&gt; c:\listing.txt<br>
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[Donald]

Look up the shell command and see if that helps. Note that excecution carries on without waiting for it to terminate.<br>
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Good Luck<br>
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D

 

[ssingh]

You have to do socket programming to access remote machines. Like FTP server. There are some functions in MFC which can do the same . Then you can get the directory structure of a remote machine. <br><br><br>Thanx<br>Siddhartha Singh<br><A HREF="mailto:ssingh@aztecsoft.com">ssingh@aztecsoft.com</A>

 

[markg30]

Look up the WNet functions in the Windows API.&nbsp;&nbsp;Connect to the drives using UNC paths and the WNet functions.&nbsp;&nbsp;This will allow your program to work regardless of the type of server (Netware/NT) you need to access, and does not require and Novell specific libraries to be linked in to your code.