Sample Windows API network calls

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James McCall

Sample Windows API network calls

Post by James McCall » 03 Nov 2007, 03:18

 Posted by:  James McCall 

Sample attached, saved as text in CTD2000, has these grown functions, by way
of interfaces to Windows network API calls (answering the questions we
really need answered) ...

- MyPathSkipRoot( ) (interface to PathSkipRootA( ) in shlwapi.dll)... strip
the server or network share part from a path
- MyDirectoryExists( ) ... if the path is on an not-yet-connected server it
has the option to pop up the login dialog and if that option isn't taken
doesn't take 30-90 seconds to figure it out
- MyConnectToNetworkShare( ) (interface to WNetUseConnectionA( ) in
mpr.dll )
- MyGetIPFromHostName( )
- MyPingHost( )
- MyIsConnectedToNetworkShare( ) ... attempt to figure out if we are
connected to a server, useful to call this before trying to access something
on that server
- MyUNCPathToUNCNetworkShare( ) ... strip a path to just the network share
part (eg. \\dbsrv1\data\vss stripped to \\dbsrv1\data)
- MyNetworkPathToServerName( )
- MyMappedDriveToServerName( ) ... find out which server is behind v:\data
- MyNetworkPathToServerIP( )

I have posted it in response to a question posted in the
forum.td.development newsgroup.

NOTE: if you examine the code closely you may find some strange
interdependencies, this is an attempt to get a good balance between
efficiency, maintainability and usefulness. If you make use of this code
and improve it in the process please have the decency to post it back in
this forum.

James McCall

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Re: Sample Windows API network calls

Post by Mirko » 05 Jun 2008, 09:10

 Posted by:  Mirko BONANNO 

Hi James,

very nice set of functions !!!

Unfortunately the sample applications does not work properly... maybe I'm
doing something wrong ?

It only works with local drives !

Please find (in the next message) a picture showing the same network
directory in your application and in windows explorer.

Mirko

PS GTD42 & WXP (of course I changed strci20 and vti20 to strci42 and vti42)

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Re: Sample Windows API network calls

Post by Mirko » 05 Jun 2008, 09:13

 Posted by:  Mirko BONANNO 

Here is the picture showing how the network directory is not recognized !

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Re: Sample Windows API network calls

Post by James McCall » 07 Jun 2008, 07:23

 Posted by:  James McCall 

MyDirectoryExists( ) in clsNetworkFunctions will try to PING \\bip400\. If
it fails then the function does not continue.

Normally I'd guess that PING response is turned off on \\bip400\ . However
in this case I see that MyGetIPFromHostName( ) failes so MyPingHost( ) won't
even get as far as sending the PING. I suggest you step into
MyGetIPFromHostName( ) and see where it fails.

James

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Re: Sample Windows API network calls

Post by Mirko » 09 Jun 2008, 11:20

 Posted by:  Mirko BONANNO 

Hi James,

it looks like gethostbyname( "BIP400" ) return 0

:-(

James McCall

Re: Sample Windows API network calls

Post by James McCall » 09 Jun 2008, 18:36

 Posted by:  James McCall 

Is this an IP network? The function MyDirectoryExists( ) assumes that it is
an IP network and checks for the existence of the server by calling
MyPingHost( ). If you can't make that assumption then edit
MyDirectoryExists( ) to remove the calls to MyPingHost.

Find this ...

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    If ( NOT MyPingHost( sHostName ) )
        Set nRcvHostExists_P = NUM_FALSE
        Set nRet   = NUM_FALSE
        Break
    Set nRcvHostExists_P = NUM_TRUE
... and change it to this ...
    ! If ( NOT MyPingHost( sHostName ) )
        Set nRcvHostExists_P = NUM_FALSE
        Set nRet   = NUM_FALSE
        Break
    ! Set nRcvHostExists_P = NUM_TRUE
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    If ( NOT MyPingHost( lsDirToCheck_P ) )
        Set nRcvHostExists_P = NUM_FALSE
        Set nRet   = NUM_FALSE
        Break
    Set nRcvHostExists_P = NUM_TRUE
... and change it to this ...
    ! If ( NOT MyPingHost( lsDirToCheck_P ) )
        Set nRcvHostExists_P = NUM_FALSE
        Set nRet   = NUM_FALSE
        Break
    ! Set nRcvHostExists_P = NUM_TRUE

Mike

Re: Sample Windows API network calls

Post by Mike » 10 Jun 2008, 12:13

 Posted by:  Mike 

I use my own method which is very similar.

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!!CB!! 81
Library name: mpr.dll
	ThreadSafe: No
	Function: WNetCancelConnection2A
		Description: Drop a network connection
		Export Ordinal: 0
		Returns
			Number: DWORD
		Parameters
			String: LPSTR
			Number: DWORD
			Boolean: BOOL
	Function: WNetAddConnection2A
		Description: Make a network connection
		Export Ordinal: 0
		Returns
			Number: DWORD
		Parameters
			structPointer
				Receive Number: DWORD
				Receive Number: DWORD
				Receive Number: DWORD
				Receive Number: DWORD
				Receive String: LPSTR
				Receive String: LPSTR
				Receive String: LPSTR
				Receive String: LPSTR
			String: LPSTR
			String: LPSTR
			Number: DWORD
	Function: WNetGetLastErrorA
		Description:
		Export Ordinal: 0
		Returns
			Number: DWORD
		Parameters
			Number: LPVOID
			String: LPSTR
			Number: DWORD
			String: LPSTR
			Number: DWORD
	Function: WNetGetConnectionA
		Description: Get connection of a drive letter
		Export Ordinal: 0
		Returns
			Number: DWORD
		Parameters
			String: LPCSTR
			Receive String: LPSTR
			Receive Number: LPDWORD
	Function: WNetGetUserA
		Description:
		Export Ordinal: 0
		Returns
			Number: DWORD
		Parameters
			String: LPSTR
			Receive String: LPSTR
			Receive Number: LPDWORD
	! Function: WNetGetUserDeviceA
		Description: Get the user from a device or resource
		Export Ordinal: 61
		Returns
			Number: DWORD
		Parameters
			String: LPSTR
			Receive String: LPSTR
			Receive Number: LPDWORD
	Function: WNetUseConnectionA
		Description: WNetUSeConnection BE AWARE CHECK MSDN LIBRARY is different for win9x/ME and win NT/2K/XP
		Export Ordinal: 0
		Returns
			Number: DWORD
		Parameters
			Window Handle: HWND
			structPointer
				Number: DWORD
				Number: DWORD
				Number: DWORD
				Number: DWORD
				String: LPSTR
				String: LPSTR
				String: LPSTR
				String: LPSTR
			String: LPSTR
			String: LPSTR
			Number: DWORD
			Receive String: LPSTR
			Receive Number: LPDWORD
			Receive Number: LPDWORD
	Function: WNetAddConnectionA
		Description:
		Export Ordinal: 0
		Returns
			Number: DWORD
		Parameters
			String: LPCSTR
			String: LPCSTR
			String: LPCSTR

!!CB!! 134
Function: WNetUseConnection
	Description: OS independant (Uses WinNT alike) WNetUseConnection
	Returns
		Number:
	Parameters
		String: lpLocalName
		String: lpRemoteName
		String: lpUserID
		String: lpPassword
		Receive String: sDriveLetter
	Static Variables
	Local variables
		Number: dwScope
		Number: dwDisplayType
		Number: dwUseage
		String: lpComment
		Number: OSVersionInfoSize
		Number: dwMajorVersion
		Number: dwMinorVersion
		Number: dwBuildNumber
		Number: dwPlatformID
		String: szCSDVersion
		Number: wServicePackMajor
		Number: wServicePackMinor
		Number: wSuiteMask
		Number: wProductType
		Number: wReserved
		String: lpAccessName
		Number: lpBufferSize
		Number: lpResult
		Number: nTemp
	Actions
		Set sDriveLetter=''
		If not GetVersionExA(156,dwMajorVersion,dwMinorVersion,dwBuildNumber,dwPlatformID,szCSDVersion,wServicePackMajor,wServicePackMinor,wSuiteMask,wProductType,wReserved)
			Return GetLastError()
		If dwPlatformID=0
			Call SalMessageBox('This program can not run under win32S','Melding',0)
			Call SalQuit()
		Call SalStrSetBufferLength(lpAccessName,128)
		Set lpBufferSize=127
		If dwPlatformID=1
			Set nTemp=WNetUseConnectionA(hWndNULL,2,1,3,1,lpLocalName,lpRemoteName,STRING_Null,STRING_Null,lpUserID,lpPassword,0x80,lpAccessName,lpBufferSize,lpResult)
			If nTemp!=0
				Return nTemp
			Set sDriveLetter=lpAccessName
			Return nTemp
		If dwPlatformID=2
			Set nTemp=WNetUseConnectionA(hWndNULL,2,1,3,1,lpLocalName,lpRemoteName,STRING_Null,STRING_Null,lpPassword,lpUserID,0x80,lpAccessName,lpBufferSize,lpResult)
			If nTemp!=0
				Return nTemp
			Set sDriveLetter=lpAccessName
			Return nTemp
		Return -1

!!CB!! 134
Function: DriveMap
	Description: Check if any drive is mapped under network,unc,user if so return drive letter else map any drive
	Returns
		Number:
	Parameters
		String: sMapname
		String: sUser
		String: sPassword
		Receive String: sDrive
		Receive Boolean: bNewMap
	Static Variables
	Local variables
		String: sDrives[*]
		String: sMap
		Number: n
		Number: nBound
		String: sMappedUser
		Number: nTemp
	Actions
		Call VisDosEnumDrives(sDrives)
		Set n=1
		! First check all network drives if it already is mapped if so return driveletter
		Call SalArrayGetUpperBound(sDrives,1,nBound)
		While n<=nBound
			If VisDosGetDriveType(sDrives[n])=DRIVE_Network
				Set nTemp=1023
				Call SalStrSetBufferLength(sMap,1024)
				If WNetGetConnectionA(sDrives[n],sMap,nTemp)=0
					If SalStrUpperX(sMap)=SalStrUpperX(sMapname)
						Set nTemp=80
						Call SalStrSetBufferLength(sMappedUser,81)
						If WNetGetUserA(sDrives[n],sMappedUser,nTemp)=0
							! It is also possible that mappeduser comes with a domain or workgroup.
							! So find the last \ and take it from there
							Set nTemp=VisStrScanReverse(sMappedUser,SalStrLength(sMappedUser)-1,'\\')
							If nTemp!=-1
								Set sMappedUser=SalStrMidX(sMappedUser,nTemp+1,80)
							If sUser=sMappedUser
								Set sDrive=sDrives[n]
								Set bNewMap=FALSE
								Return 0
			Set n=n+1
		! apparently no drive is mapped here so try to map it
		Set nTemp=WNetUseConnection(sDrive,sMapname,sUser,sPassword,sDrive)
		Set bNewMap=TRUE
		Return nTemp
And in case you need it:

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!!CB!! 134
Function: fWindowsError
	Description: Give the windows error back
	Returns
		String:
	Parameters
		Number: nErr
	Static Variables
	Local variables
		String: sErr
	Actions
		Call SalStrSetBufferLength(sErr,1024)
		If nErr<0
			Set nErr=-nErr
		Call FormatMessageA(0x12FF,0,nErr,0,sErr,1024,0)
		Return sErr
See also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385482(VS.85).aspx

It works flawless with connections over here.

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Re: Sample Windows API network calls

Post by FRBhote » 11 Jun 2008, 07:39

 Posted by:  F R Bhote 

Can we have it as an APT please?

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Re: Sample Windows API network calls

Post by Mirko » 11 Jun 2008, 17:59

 Posted by:  Mirko BONANNO 

Good suggestion !!

Mike

Re: Sample Windows API network calls

Post by Mike » 06 Oct 2008, 15:26

 Posted by:  Mike 

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Re: Sample Windows API network calls

Post by Mike » 06 Oct 2008, 15:26

 Posted by:  Mike 

Just a quick extract from some of my code then.

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