Determining between local drives and networked drives

[MarkusJ_NZ]

Hi, is there anyway to determine between a local physical drive and a network drive that has been mapped?

Eg. I just want to search the A: C: and any other drives that are physically located on the machine.

I want the program to ignore any network mapped drives M: for example.

I am currently using the Filesystem object.

Thanks in advance
MarkusJ

[Vlatko]

Try this

GetDriveType
The GetDriveType function determines whether a disk drive is a removable, fixed, CD-ROM, RAM disk, or network drive.

UINT GetDriveType(
LPCTSTR lpRootPathName // pointer to root path
);

Parameters
lpRootPathName
Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the root directory of the disk to return information about. If lpRootPathName is NULL, the function uses the root of the current directory.
Return Values
The return value specifies the type of drive. It can be one of the following values:

Value Meaning
DRIVE_UNKNOWN The drive type cannot be determined.
DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR The root directory does not exist.
DRIVE_REMOVABLE The disk can be removed from the drive.
DRIVE_FIXED The disk cannot be removed from the drive.
DRIVE_REMOTE The drive is a remote (network) drive.
DRIVE_CDROM The drive is a CD-ROM drive.
DRIVE_RAMDISK The drive is a RAM disk.

Private Declare Function GetDriveType Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetDriveTypeA" (ByVal nDrive As String) As Long
Private Sub Form_Load()
'Set the graphic mode to persistent
    Me.AutoRedraw = True
    'Get information about the C:\
    Select Case GetDriveType("C:\")
        Case 2
            Me.Print "Removable"
        Case 3
            Me.Print "Drive Fixed"
        Case Is = 4
            Me.Print "Remote"
        Case Is = 5
            Me.Print "Cd-Rom"
        Case Is = 6
            Me.Print "Ram disk"
        Case Else
            Me.Print "Unrecognized"
    End Select
End Sub

[MarkusJ_NZ]

Thanks for that

[Steve Stunning]

Ya, Thanks.... This is rather handy!