Use api or net use command to map drives?

[Maulin Vasavada]

Hi,

I just want to map a drive to some shared folder. I have simple
requirements. I don't have login required for this mapped connection so
I was wondering should I just use "net use" via Process class?

I found,
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/mapnetdrive.asp which seems pretty
neat but I was just wondering if I don't need the UI and some other
stuff from that API why to use it unncessary? I don't think I would
need those functionality in future as well.

Is there some obvious drawback of using the "net use" vs some API built
on mpr.dll??

Btw, I am using Windows 2000 if that matters in anyway.

Regards,
Maulin

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Re: Use api or net use command to map drives?


"Maulin Vasavada" <maulin.vasavad a@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1108205998 .016013.242940@ o13g2000cwo.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I just want to map a drive to some shared folder. I have simple
> requirements. I don't have login required for this mapped connection so
> I was wondering should I just use "net use" via Process class?
>
> I found,
> http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/mapnetdrive.asp which seems pretty
> neat but I was just wondering if I don't need the UI and some other
> stuff from that API why to use it unncessary? I don't think I would
> need those functionality in future as well.
>
> Is there some obvious drawback of using the "net use" vs some API built
> on mpr.dll??
>
> Btw, I am using Windows 2000 if that matters in anyway.
>
> Regards,
> Maulin
>[/color]

No, just stick to the command line utilities if you can. I would also
suggest to use UNC paths in your code instead of drive mapping.

Willy.