Convert browsed path to UNC for shared path

Edhy · Post by **Edhy** » Sat May 05, 2007 2:57 pm

Hi,

In my installation, I am setting up a Windows Service and need to create a registry key with a Path information to be used by this service, problem is that Windows Services needs to use UNC path instead of shared folder, so is there anything in IA that will allow me to convert a shared folder path to a UNC path so I can update the registry key properly?

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Ex:
User will select folder T:\\MyShared
I need to convert that mapped drive to:
\\\\MyServer\\MySharedFolder\\MyShare, and store it in $TARGETDIR$

Thanks!

Edhy · Post by **Edhy** » Tue May 08, 2007 10:32 pm

Does anybody have an idea how to get the UNC path from a shared mapped drive?

Gizm0 · Post by **Gizm0** » Wed May 09, 2007 7:25 am

Edhy wrote:Does anybody have an idea how to get the UNC path from a shared mapped drive?

I can think of 2 ways.. Calling WNetGetConnection Win32 API using the plugin or, call "net use" command (it returns all mapped drives), write it on a temp file, read the file line by line, and when you match your Path, get the UNC path (which is on the first collumn on the "net use" command output").

Edhy · Post by **Edhy** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:02 pm

Hi Panagiotis,

I am trying to make this function WNetGetConnection work in IA with not luck.

Can you or anybody provide me with a sample call to this function in IA?

Here is the code I had tried so far:

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Set Variable VOLNAME to 
Set Variable LOCALNAME to 
Set Variable MAXPATH to 260
Call DLL Function MPR.dll->WNetGetConnection (get result into variable VOLNAME)
MessageBox: Volume Name, Target Dir is:$NEWLINE$$TARGETDIR$$NEWLINE$$NEWLINE$VolName is:$NEWLINE$$VOLNAME$

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~InstallAware Clipboard Data~
~MessageBox~
~{3819D5F0-3E85-45D1-96CA-B6D4F18E8C1F}~
~Volume Name~
~Target Dir is:$NEWLINE$$TARGETDIR$$NEWLINE$$NEWLINE$VolName is:$NEWLINE$$VOLNAME$~
~0~
~1~
~~
~Call DLL Function~
~{DE7A9FAD-A5F2-44D5-A40A-3FB94BCC45C7}~
~MPR.dll,WNetGetConnection,long,VOLNAME,"pointer to string",$TARGETDIR$,"pointer to string",$LOCALNAME$,"pointer to long",$MAXPATH$,$~
~mIDEFunc.dll\\mEXEFunc.dll~
~Set Variable~
~{14F0DAF2-3180-4BA0-A068-93F1BD6348C9}~
~MAXPATH$MYAH$MYAH$FALSE~
~260~
~Set Variable~
~{4F8B82F8-AE1E-44CC-8718-4916800EEBBB}~
~LOCALNAME$MYAH$MYAH$FALSE~
~~
~Set Variable~
~{A43DABE1-3D10-44AC-B3EC-B94DC93CA5E3}~
~VOLNAME$MYAH$MYAH$FALSE~
~~

Thanks!

Tinus · Post by **Tinus** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:51 am

Edhy,

I have enhanced the volume info plug-in to return the UNC path name.

More information and download is here:
http://www.axonet.de/eng/Axo/plugins_fo ... laware.htm

Edhy · Post by **Edhy** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:24 am

Hi Martin,

I can not thank you a lot for adding this functionality to your Plug-In. So far I am using the Windows Firewall, which works great! and now will test this UNC which I needed to save the $TARGETDIR$ in UNC format when my application is installed on a network share folder.

Once again, thanks for taking the time and add this functionality.

Edhy · Post by **Edhy** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:30 pm

Hi Martin,

Just to confirm that the Plug-In is working as expected, I am able to get the UNC format for the TARGETDIR variable.

Once again, thanks for sharing this with the community.

Tinus · Post by **Tinus** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:22 am

Hi Edhy,

thanks for your confirmation.