Check if a drive is shared. Unblock a port

[Fozzie22]

Hi all,

I have a couple of questions. When my program first runs I would like it to check if one of the computers hard disks is set to shared. I would also like to unblock a port (10000) as I use this as comms channel and also to stop XP from poping up the annoying "do you want to unblock the port" message.

Can anyone suggest a way of how to do this.

Thanks

Fozzie

 

[ThatRickGuy]

If the machine is on a domain with active directory, you can pull the shares from there. If not, you will likely have to use the Windows Management Interface (WMI) to get the info. I don't beleive share info is available in the System.IO namespace, but a quick check there could save you some time.

As far as opening a port on XP's port blocker... I'm not sure. If anything I would guess it would be an API call, but I have no idea on specifics. I'd say search MS's knowledge base for XP Firewall and API.

-Rick

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[Fozzie22]

Thankyou

 

[chrissie1]

poping up the annoying "do you want to unblock the port" message

That's why it's there. If you do find a way to stop this message then you have found the next security flaw in XP.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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