Thank you Bob for your reply! It partly helped because it returns True for
any sPath meeting formal criteria (starting with \\) and False for
non-meeting ones but doesn't reflect that server sPath is a really existing
server or not.

Any further idea?

Regards,
Stefi


€žBob Phillips€� ezt Ã*rta:

Private Declare Function PathIsUNCServer Lib "shlwapi" _
Alias "PathIsUNCServerA" _
(ByVal pszPath As String) As Long


Public Function IsUNCPathAServer(ByVal sPath As String) As Boolean

IsUNCPathAServer = PathIsUNCServer(sPath) = 1
End Function


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HTH

Bob


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"Stefi" wrote in message
...
Hi Dave,

I was looking for a solution for checking the existence of a server and
found this post of yours and hoped it helps me, but it doesn't. It returns
a
wrong False value if path to be checked consists of only the server name.

My aim is to separate cases of non-existence of a folder:

1. The folder doesn't exist on an existing server.
2. The folder doesn't exist because the server itself doesn't exist (e.g.
its name is mis-spelled).

Any idea?

Regards,
Stefi



"Dave Peterson" ezt Ã*rta:

I've used this before, but it's untested, uncompiled here.

Dim TestStr as string
teststr = ""
on error resume next
teststr = dir("\\your\unc\path\here" & "\nul")
on error goto 0

if teststr = "" then
'not there
else
'is there
end if



Chuck M wrote:

Hi,

I'm using a DIR command to verify that a folder exists on a local C:
drive.
If I need to check a folder on a network drive, can I use the mapped
drive
letter or must I supply a UNC path to the DIR command. I don't have the
resources to test this myself.

TIA
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Chuck M.

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Dave Peterson