How to get the list of destinations mapped to my user? By destinations I mean network drives/locations.

Question

Hi, I am currently trying to find a way to determine all the drives and network locations attached to my pc in cpp. For the Logical Drives I can use GetLogicalDrives(), I am looking for ways to get the list of network locations added. So, far I have found the list at these 2 places. 1. $env:APPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts

2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2 and access using ***RegOpenKeyEx() *** and RegEnumKeyEx().

Which is the recommended way of doing this? In the first option I need to resolve the shortcut to get what is connected. In the second I need to read from the registry

Answer 1

From MSDN, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/knownfolderid

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts is

FOLDERID_NetHood

By enumerating items from SHGetKnownFolderPath & FOLDERID_NetHood (IShellFolder, IEnumIDList, ...), I get shortcuts on my Windows 10 OS (I just added 1 shortcut to test)

Answer 2

Hello Ashok Aravind S N,

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

You could try to use Powershell cmdlet Get-PSDrive or net use cmd to get the list, here is the link for you reference:

https://shellgeek.com/how-to-get-mapped-network-drives-using-powershell/

I hope the information above is helpful.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to let us know.

Best Regards,

Daisy Zhou

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