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Hooligan · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject: Writing to a UNC path

Does VDS support reading and writing to an UNC path? Or does this require an external dll?

Hooligan

Hooligan · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:33 pm Post subject:

Nobody has any clue? Sad

Hooligan

webdaddy · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject: Testing

Looking at this now. I dont think it will work. I would think you would need to map the drive and ensure that it is available. I have written scripts that map the drive automatically however to accomplish this same thing and then simply write to the drive that has been mapped. Good luck man.

webdaddy · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:32 pm Post subject: Try This and See

Hooligan · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks,
What I was trying to do, was to test for the existence of a directory...

Ciulla · Newbie Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 11

I write to shares all the times, like you said you cannot validate that the root of the share exists.

I create folders under the share and then check for the folder, if I am writing to the root of the share then I test that the savefile or file copy return an OK status.

Ciulla · Newbie Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 11

Try this

%%Directory_Path = \\Host\Share
If @Not(@Null(%%Directory_Path))
%S = %%Directory_Path
LOADLIB shlwapi.dll
%%Valid_Path = @LIB(shlwapi.dll,PathIsDirectoryA,BOOL:,@ADDR("%S"))
If %%Valid_Path
%%Root_Path = @LIB(shlwapi.dll,PathIsRootA,BOOL:,@ADDR("%S"))
If %%Root_Path
Info %%Directory_Path Directory is Valid and is the Root of the Path
Else
Info %%Directory_Path Directory is Valid and is not the Root of the Path
End
Else
Info %%Directory_Path Directory is Not Valid
End
FREELIB shlwapi.dll
End

Hooligan · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject:

Thanks,

I'll play with that, and let you know what I find...

Hooligan