WNet Functions

Windows CE is designed to work with networks. When several Windows machines exist on a net, they can easily share disk drives and printers with one another. The Explorer provides an easy way for users to connect to these shared devices. The Windows CE API also gives you mechanisms to connect to these devices from within your applications.

Windows sees the network as a tree. Any Windows network is divided into a series of domains, each of which contains a set of machines. Each machine can share zero or more drives, directories, or printers on the network.

Windows CE supports a subset of the Win32 API WNet functions that can be used to maintain connections to network resources (such as folder and printer shares). Before using the ...

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