NET.EXE and the SHELL command.

[Dankert]

Hi,

I have a problem hopefully someone could help with.

When I run "NET USE Z: \\Server\Share" from the commandline and then run a
PB 3.5 program under Windows XP like:

OPEN "Z:\Test.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
PRINT #1,"Hello"
CLOSE #1

everything works as expected, but if I instead run the NET command, using
the same syntax as above, from a SHELL statement like

SHELL "NET USE Z: \\Server\Share"
OPEN "Z:\Test.txt".......

the OPEN statement causes BASIC error 76.

When I use "Windows Explorer" to see if the drive has been mapped it
hasn't.(If SHELLing)
Why cant't I map the network drive from a SHELL statement?

Thanks for your time!

[Ian Spencer]

Post by Dankert
Hi,
I have a problem hopefully someone could help with.
When I run "NET USE Z: \\Server\Share" from the commandline and then run
OPEN "Z:\Test.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
PRINT #1,"Hello"
CLOSE #1
everything works as expected, but if I instead run the NET command, using
the same syntax as above, from a SHELL statement like
SHELL "NET USE Z: \\Server\Share"
OPEN "Z:\Test.txt".......
the OPEN statement causes BASIC error 76.
When I use "Windows Explorer" to see if the drive has been mapped it
hasn't.(If SHELLing)
Why cant't I map the network drive from a SHELL statement?
Thanks for your time!

I have used the shell in a similar way many times with PB3.5 and never had a
problem, for example :-

shell "net use q:\myserve-serv100\dir1 /persistent:no"
shell "q:\common.bat
shell "net use q: /delete

This works for me in both PB3.5 and PBCC4.01 compiled on my Pentium 3 and
Pentium 4 with XP Pro. The resulting exe has been used with both XP and
Windows NT 4 systems.

Ian

[Peter Manders]

Post by Dankert
Hi,
I have a problem hopefully someone could help with.
When I run "NET USE Z: \\Server\Share" from the commandline and then run a
OPEN "Z:\Test.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
PRINT #1,"Hello"
CLOSE #1
everything works as expected, but if I instead run the NET command, using
the same syntax as above, from a SHELL statement like
SHELL "NET USE Z: \\Server\Share"
OPEN "Z:\Test.txt".......
the OPEN statement causes BASIC error 76.
When I use "Windows Explorer" to see if the drive has been mapped it
hasn't.(If SHELLing)
Why cant't I map the network drive from a SHELL statement?
Thanks for your time!

Try using the "persistent" option. type "net use /?" to see the
options. Don't forget to /delete when done.

[Dankert]

Thanks for your advice.I finally found what was causing the problem.I have
to provide the SHELL statement with the fully qualified path to the NET.EXE
program as in "C:\i386\NET.EXE".

Post by Peter Manders

Post by Dankert
Hi,
I have a problem hopefully someone could help with.
When I run "NET USE Z: \\Server\Share" from the commandline and then run a
OPEN "Z:\Test.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
PRINT #1,"Hello"
CLOSE #1
everything works as expected, but if I instead run the NET command, using
the same syntax as above, from a SHELL statement like
SHELL "NET USE Z: \\Server\Share"
OPEN "Z:\Test.txt".......
the OPEN statement causes BASIC error 76.
When I use "Windows Explorer" to see if the drive has been mapped it
hasn't.(If SHELLing)
Why cant't I map the network drive from a SHELL statement?
Thanks for your time!

Try using the "persistent" option. type "net use /?" to see the
options. Don't forget to /delete when done.
--
Peter Manders.
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