"David Stratton" <davidstratton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am trying to determine how to map network drives with .net. Here's a
> little background:
>
> I work at a helpdesk in the retail industry. I currently have an
> application that uses the Windows Script Host (vbscript if it matters)
that
> monitors our store's cash registers for a potential problem. Our cash
> registers are supposed to continually send sales information over the a
back
> office computer real-time. Every so often, the cash registers stop
> communicating with the back office PC. When this happens, there is a
> temporary journal file that grows in size with each transaction.
>
> The script that I use maps a network drive to the C: drive of each
register
> (using the i.p address i.e. \\192.168.1.1\C$) and uses the Windows
username
> and password set up in the registers. The script then checks the size of
> the cache file, and if it finds a cache file that is over a certain file
> size, it alerts us so we can troubleshoot the problem. Once the file
size,
> is checked, the drive is disconnected, so that the drive letter can be
used
> for the next cash register.
>
> We are migrating amour applications to .Net, and I am looking for a .Net
> solution to this. I've been through the MSDN documentation of the .Net
> framework, and have not found anything that references mapping and
> disconnecting Network Drives. If someone can point me to the right
> documentation, I should be able to take it from there. Thanks in advance!
>
>