NetShareAdd info  Overview  Group

The NetShareAdd function shares a server resource.

Windows 95:
This function is exported by SVRAPI.DLL. Therefore, link your application with SVRAPI.LIB.

Security Requirements

Only members of the Administrators or Account Operators local group or those with Communication, Print, or Server operator group membership can successfully execute NetShareAdd. The Print operator can add only Printer queues. The Communication operator can add only communication-device queues.

NET_API_STATUS NetShareAdd(

LPTSTR servername,
DWORD level,
LPBYTE buf,
LPDWORD parm_err
);

Parameters

servername

Pointer to a Unicode string containing the name of the remote server on which the function is to execute. A NULL pointer or string specifies the local computer.

level

Specifies one of the following values to set the level of information provided.

Value	Meaning
2	The buf parameter points to an array of SHARE_INFO_2 structures.
502	The buf parameter points to an array of SHARE_INFO_502 structures.

buf

Pointer to the buffer in which the data set with the level parameter is stored.

parm_err

Optional pointer to a DWORD that contains the index of the first parameter that causes ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER. If NULL, the parameter is not returned on error.

Return Values

If the function returns account information, the return value is NERR_Success.

If the function fails, the return value is one of the following error codes.

Value	Meaning
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED	The user does not have access to the requested information.
ERROR_INVALID_LEVEL	The value specified for the Level parameter is invalid.
ERROR_INVALID_NAME	The character or file system name is invalid.
ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER	The specified parameter is invalid.
NERR_DuplicateShare	The sharename is already in use on this server.
NERR_RedirectedPath	The operation is invalid for a redirected resource. The specified device name is assigned to a shared resource.
NERR_UnknownDevDir	The device or directory does not exist.

See Also

NetShareDel