Get User's Home Directory

[abp]

Hi,

How do I get a the current user's home directory
within a program, on Windows2000. The following code
which works on NT fails in Windows2000 which uses
Active Directory to retrieve directory information...
It returns the HOMEDRIVE instead of HOME.

Any help in this is welcome.
Here is the code.

Thanks

Anand

#define MAXSTR 1024
define RET_STRING_SIZE 256

get_nt_user_home(char* user_home)
{
int size=MAXSTR;
WCHAR wuser_name[MAXSTR];
USER_INFO_1 *user_info;

if( GetUserName( user_name, &size ) )
{
MultiByteToWideChar( CP_ACP, 0, user_name, size,
wuser_name, sizeof(wuser_name ) );
{
status = NetUserGetInfo( NULL,
wuser_name, 1,
(LPBYTE *)&user_info);

if( status == NERR_Success )
{
WideCharToMultiByte( CP_ACP, 0,
user_info->usri1_home_dir, wcslen( user_info->usri1_home_dir, user_home, RET_STRING_SIZE, "\0", NULL );
}
}
}
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[chiph]

Look up the api for:
[tab]SHGetSpecialFolderPath

It needs v4.71 or later of shell32.dll

Chip H.

 

[abp]

Hi

Thanks for the reply. But the function should
work across the LAN. Isnt there any *Net* function
that would do the work ?

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