Special folders on network

[Jim1981]

Hi. Need some help here.

Is it possible to find a special folder on another machine over a network?

Currently I use SHGetSpecialFolderPath to find the All Users folder on my machine, but how can I find the All Users folder for someone else's machine (over a LAN)from a program running on mine? Can this be done?

Basically, I need my program to write a file on someone else's machine on the network, but I don't know which directories are going to have write permissions etc, so I need to use one of the special folders (or somewhere else appropriate - any ideas?).

Does anyone have any advice for me?

Cheers.

[Marc G]

Currently I use SHGetSpecialFolderPath to find the All Users folder on my machine, but how can I find the All Users folder for someone else's machine (over a LAN)from a program running on mine? Can this be done?

No.
You have to share the folder that you want on the other machine.

Or use a client-server design.
Make a little app (client) that runs on the other machine. Then send a message from your machine to the client (including the file data). The client can then write the file to the desired folder, because it is running on the other machine.

[Jim1981]

Right, thanks Marc.

Just thinking now about the quickest, easiest way of sorting out my problem.

Is it possible to run an executable from my program and get a return value from it when it closes?

I know this can't be done using WinExec, but maybe some other way?

[Marc G]

You can use CreateProcess, WaitForSingleObject and GetExitCodeProcess to respectively start the app, wait untill it finished and get the result code.