DriveMapAdd Random Map. How to return mapped drive?

[Darktan]

I have a script that will have to temporarily map a network drive to share, copy a file and then disconnect. Since this could be run on any number of users I have to guess at their mappings. DriveMapAdd will let me use the '*' for the next available drive, but then I need to know what that drive is. After a successful mapping, both @error and @extended return '0' as values.

CODE

DriveMapAdd("X:", "\\myserver\stuff")

$MAPDRV=@extended

MsgBox(4096,@error, "Drive mapped as: "&$MAPDRV)

I'm running version 3.2.12.0. Anyone have any ideas why this is giving me empty values?

Peace

--Darktan

[PsaltyDS]

I have a script that will have to temporarily map a network drive to share, copy a file and then disconnect. Since this could be run on any number of users I have to guess at their mappings. DriveMapAdd will let me use the '*' for the next available drive, but then I need to know what that drive is. After a successful mapping, both @error and @extended return '0' as values.

DriveMapAdd("X:", "\\myserver\stuff")
$MAPDRV=@extended
MsgBox(4096,@error, "Drive mapped as: "&$MAPDRV)

I'm running version 3.2.12.0. Anyone have any ideas why this is giving me empty values?

Peace

--Darktan

First, if you want DriveMapAdd() to pick the drive letter, don't specify "X:".

Second, you need to capture the return value to a variable.

$sMapping = DriveMapAdd("*", "\\myserver\stuff")
$iErrSav = @error
$iExtSav = @extended
MsgBox(4096,"Results", "@error = " & $iErrSav & @CRLF & _
        "@extended = " & $iExtSav & @CRLF & _
        "Drive mapped as: " & $sMapping)

[Darktan]

First, if you want DriveMapAdd() to pick the drive letter, don't specify "X:".

Second, you need to capture the return value to a variable.

$sMapping = DriveMapAdd("*", "\\myserver\stuff")
$iErrSav = @error
$iExtSav = @extended
MsgBox(4096,"Results", "@error = " & $iErrSav & @CRLF & _
        "@extended = " & $iExtSav & @CRLF & _
        "Drive mapped as: " & $sMapping)

Thanks PsaltyDS. That did it. I needed the $sMapping to get it to work. And I have the '*'. That was a miss copy. The gas station didn't have my Mountain Dew this morning. How rude.