Map a Drive

[ChadJK]

How can I map a network share as a drive letter using C#. Normally you'd use a "NET USE ..." from the command prompt, but there has to be a programmatic way to do it in C#.

 

[Guru7777]

You still can use net use programmatically.

// for the Process()
using System.Diagnostics;

string mCommand = @"/c net use q: \\server\share";

      Process myProcess = null;
      
      try
      {  
        myProcess = new Process(); 
        myProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "CMD.EXE"; 
        myProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = mCommand;
        myProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
        myProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
        myProcess.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
        myProcess.Start();
				
					        
        if(!myProcess.WaitForExit(60000))
        {
          // do error failure stuff
        }
      }
      catch(Exception ex)
      {
        // more error stuff        
      }

Tested this several times and it worked fine. Let me know if it does the trick.

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[tgreer]

I don't think there is a direct way, actually. You can use WinApi calls, though.

http://www.enterpriseetc.com/article.aspx?i=2

I'll also sound a warning that drive mappings are specific to a user account... so any mappings you create will likely only exist for the account your apps is running under.



Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com