UNC Paths

[Paul Smith]

Is it possible to use a UNC path with ChDir?

I want to replace:

ChDir "G:\Shared\Access\Project Area\Project 1"

with

ChDir "\\[Server Name]\]Share]\Project Area\Project 1"

This does now seem to work for me...should it?

 

[Rob Bovey]

Is it possible to use a UNC path with ChDir?
I want to replace:
ChDir "G:\Shared\Access\Project Area\Project 1"
with
ChDir "\\[Server Name]\]Share]\Project Area\Project 1"
This does now seem to work for me...should it?

Hi Paul,

No, ChDir doesn't work with UNC paths. Here's a Windows API-based
solution. It will work with either UNC or drive letters and it will modify
the drive and path in one call:

Private Declare Function SetCurrentDirectoryA Lib "kernel32" _
(ByVal lpPathName As String) As Long

Public Sub SetUNCPath(ByVal szPathToSet As String)
SetCurrentDirectoryA szPathToSet
End Sub

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