Checking Whether a folder is a network share

[replic]

Hi everyone,
as the heading already says i want to check whether a folder is a network share or not.
So far i tried to achieve this by reading the file attributes but that did not lead to the right solution.
If anyone here knows how to do this please reply.

[Ancient Dragon]

I assume you are talking about MS-Windows operating systems. If not, then ignore this.

maybe the example in this link and this will help you. It shows you how to mount a network drive. If WNetAddConnection2() fails and returns ERROR_ALREADY_ASSIGNED then the drive is already mounted. Also make sure to read the remarks at the bottom of the page.

[marco93]

maybe the example in this link and this will help you. It shows you how to mount a network drive. If WNetAddConnection2() fails and returns ERROR_ALREADY_ASSIGNED then the drive is already mounted. Also make sure to read the remarks at the bottom of the page.

No.
You must use SH api.

[replic]

After looking around i decided to use NetShareEnum but encountered a problem there.
I tried the following code but it only displays the first characters of each share.

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <lm.h>

int main()
{
	DWORD dwStatus, dwSharesRead, dwTotalShares;
                LPSHARE_INFO_2 pShareBuffer, pShareTemp;

	dwStatus = NetShareEnum(NULL, 2, (LPBYTE *)&pShareBuffer,
                MAX_PREFERRED_LENGTH, &dwSharesRead, &dwTotalShares, NULL);

	pShareTemp = pShareBuffer;

	while (dwSharesRead > 0)
	{
		std::cout << pShareTemp->shi2_netname;
		std::cout << pShareTemp->shi2_path << std::endl;

		dwSharesRead--;
		pShareTemp++;
	}
	NetApiBufferFree(pShareBuffer);

	system("pause");
	return 0;
}

I would be grateful for any hint.

[ArkM]

It's a UNICODE string. Use WideCharToMiultiByte to convert share name to ordinar string.
May be better try NetShareGetInfo?
Apropos, "No special group membership is required for level 0 or level 1 calls" only...

[replic]

Eventually i got it working using edited code from an MS example. Although it works i don't see a major difference to the code above.
But nevertheless it works and so i will mark the thread as solved thanks for your help everyone.

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <lm.h>

int main()
{
   PSHARE_INFO_502 BufPtr, p;
   NET_API_STATUS res;
   LPTSTR   lpszServer = NULL;
   DWORD er = 0,tr = 0,resume = 0, i;
   
   do
   {
      res = NetShareEnum(lpszServer, 502, (LPBYTE *) &BufPtr, -1, &er, &tr, &resume);

      if(res == ERROR_SUCCESS || res == ERROR_MORE_DATA)
      {
         p = BufPtr;

         for(i = 1; i <= er; i++)
         {
			 printf("%S\t\t%S\n", p->shi502_netname, p->shi502_path);
			 p++;
         }

         NetApiBufferFree(BufPtr);
      }
      else 
         printf("Error: %ld\n", res);
   }
   while(res == ERROR_MORE_DATA);

   system("pause");
   return 0;
}