Detecting XP's Simple File Sharing
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By default, XP HE only has simple file sharing enabled. The user can then manually enable regular file sharing. In my installation program, I would like to determine if this is the case, and then tell the user how to enable regular file sharing. Is there any way to programatically detect if simple file sharing is the only method available? I think the settings are stored in the SAM portion of the registry - so that is out. But I thought there might be a way to infer this information. Thanks, Mike
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By default, XP HE only has simple file sharing enabled. The user can then manually enable regular file sharing. In my installation program, I would like to determine if this is the case, and then tell the user how to enable regular file sharing. Is there any way to programatically detect if simple file sharing is the only method available? I think the settings are stored in the SAM portion of the registry - so that is out. But I thought there might be a way to infer this information. Thanks, Mike
Not sure if you'll find it here but you might want to look at WMI [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmi_start_page.asp[^]] Regards, Brian Dela :-)