How to programmatically discover mapped network drives on system and their server names?

Question

I\'m trying to find out how to programmatically (I\'m using C#) determine the name (or i.p.) of servers to which my workstation has current maps. In other words, at some po

Answer 1

You could use WMI to enumerate and query mapped drives. The following code enumerates mapped drives, extracts the server name portion, and prints that out.

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Management;

namespace ConsoleApplication1 {
    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {
            ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(
                "select * from Win32_MappedLogicalDisk");
            foreach (ManagementObject drive in searcher.Get()) {
                Console.WriteLine(Regex.Match(
                    drive["ProviderName"].ToString(),
                    @"\\\\([^\\]+)").Groups[1]);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

You can find the documentaiton of the Win32_MappedLogicalDisk class here. An intro for accessing WMI from C# is here.