Access mounted volumes on Windows from LC?

[Roger Eller]

UNC was broken in 6.6.4 to 6.7.1  (I reported the bug when my apps began to
fail).  UNC was repaired in 6.7.5 and higher.

~Roger


On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:

> I spoke too soon.
>
> With the volume mounted, accessing it by drive letter works (so I assume
> that this isn't a permissions problem); but using the UNC fails.
>
> If I use "answer folder" I get the path with drive letter, e.g.
>         Z:/Docs/Invoices
>
> setting the defaultFolder to this path has the expected effect, using
> "there is a folder..." on this path returns true, etc.
>
> But if I use the "UNC" version of path:
>         //server/volume/Docs/Invoices
>
> then setting the defaultFolder returns "can't open directory", using
> "there is a folder..." return false.
>
> Reversing the slashes makes no difference.
>
> SysError returns either 2 or 3 - seemingly randomly. Apparently
>         2 = ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
>         3 = ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND
>
> This is on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.
>
> Previous answers suggested that some people have succeeded in accessing
> directories using UNC paths. Can you share how you've done this?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 29/06/2016 17:07, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
>
>> It wasn't a mistyped path.... but it was my making a mistake! In my lack
>> of
>> Windows knowledge, I thought that the volume was mounted - but actually
>> that
>> was a server that was 'accessible', but with none of it's volume's
>> mounted.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for their assistance.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On 22/06/2016 17:02, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Talluto wrote:
>>>
>>> The first thing to check is permission access to that folder.
>>>> Have your program do a sample write to that location and get
>>>> the results.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's too smart.  For me that's the second thing I do, but when I do in
>>> addition to checking the result I also include a call to the sysError
>>> function
>>> so I can learn what the OS might be telling me.
>>>
>>> The first thing I do is assume I mistyped the path, so I'll run
>>> something like
>>> this in the Message Box to double-check it:
>>>
>>>   answer file "Select your file:"; put it
>>>
>>
>
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