GetLogicalDrives function does not return mapped drives

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When I make a call to either system.environment.getlogicaldrives or
System.io.Directory.GetLogicalDrives from a Windows service, my mapped drives
are not returned.

I also tried WMI WIN32_MappedLogicalDisk, but unfortunately this does not
work with W2K.

Any ideas why GetLogicalDrives does not return my mapped drives when called
from a Windows service?

Thanks
 
RMB said:
FW 1.1 VB.Net

When I make a call to either system.environment.getlogicaldrives or
System.io.Directory.GetLogicalDrives from a Windows service, my mapped
drives
are not returned.

I also tried WMI WIN32_MappedLogicalDisk, but unfortunately this does not
work with W2K.

Any ideas why GetLogicalDrives does not return my mapped drives when
called
from a Windows service?
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On WIndows XP and Windows Server 2003, each logon session gets its own set
of drive letters. This differs from the earlier behavior in which there were
26 drive letters system-wide.

Details are here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180362

Short story: use UNC paths in services.

Regards,
Will
 
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