Checking File and Print Sharing

[Jeff]

Hi -

I'm creating an installation program that will install a VB.NET program and
an instance of MSDE on an unknown desktop (commercial application). The
install will include the MSDE redistributable files (and it will launch the
MSDE Setup.exe to install MSDE).

I've read that "Except on Win 98 and Millennium, file and print sharing must
be active"

How can my install program ensure this (programmatically)? More
specifically:

Where (registry setting or elsewhere) do I check for these settings, and
what name-value pairs are valid?

Is this the correct approach?

Thanks for your help.

- Jeff

 

[Peter Huang]

Hi Jeff,

I think there is no easy way to do it programmatically. You may try to If
you search "file and printer sharing" enable wmi in google groups, you can
find a lot of hits on this topic. From the link, we will find one tool
named Snetcfg can be used to get close to it.

I also searched in our internal database and found the following
information for you:
You can control file and printer sharing bysetting
hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\class\vxd\vnetsup FileSharing - AND
- PrinterSharing.

One must first make sure that "VREDIR" and "VNETSUP" are installed. You can
do this with IPNEW. There is a Client ID string for vredir, you will need
to create a new one for Vnetsup. Set the string value of the registry
entry to "On" to allow the specified sharing and "Off" to disable the
specified sharing option.

You can install one tool named regmon from www.sysinternals.com to monitor
registry value's change.
For how to install "file and printer sharing", please refer to one DDK
sample IPNEW on the Win98 DDK. It can be used to do that.
In fact, this question is better asked in DDK group since this function on
Win9X is implemented in DDK.

Best regards,

Peter Huang
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[[MSFT]]

Hi Jeff,

Thank you for the information. We will perform further research on the
issue and update you as soon as possible.

Luke

 

[Yan-Hong Huang[MSFT]]

Hi Jeff,

My colleague directed me to this post.

As I mentioned before, in order to accomplish this task, we need to go
through DDK way. For the time being, it is not possible to use VB or .NET
application to develop it. There is no way to use VB to accomplish it
directly.

For a possible workaround, you may develop it in C++ as a DLL and export
some functions. In VB, you can call functions from the DLL to do that.

Hope that helps.

Best regards,
Yanhong Huang
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[Jeff]

Your response doesn't help at all, YanHong.

- Jeff

 

[Yan-Hong Huang[MSFT]]

Hi Jeff,

I am afraid I didn't mention it quite clearyly. In order to accomplish what
you need, the only way is DDK programming. So it can't be done in VB
programming directly.

I understand you are not familar with C++ programming. You can contact
Microsoft Product Support Service(PSS) on it if necessary.

Thanks very much for your understanding.

Best regards,
Yanhong Huang
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