NetShareSetInfo function (lmshare.h)

Sets the parameters of a shared resource.

Syntax

NET_API_STATUS NET_API_FUNCTION NetShareSetInfo(
  [in]  LMSTR   servername,
  [in]  LMSTR   netname,
  [in]  DWORD   level,
  [in]  LPBYTE  buf,
  [out] LPDWORD parm_err
);

Parameters

[in] servername

Pointer to a string that specifies the DNS or NetBIOS name of the remote server on which the function is to execute. If this parameter is NULL, the local computer is used.

[in] netname

Pointer to a string that specifies the name of the share to set information on.

[in] level

Specifies the information level of the data. This parameter can be one of the following values.

[in] buf

Pointer to the buffer that specifies the data. The format of this data depends on the value of the level parameter. For more information, see Network Management Function Buffers.

[out] parm_err

Pointer to a value that receives the index of the first member of the share information structure that causes the ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER error. If this parameter is NULL, the index is not returned on error. For more information, see the following Remarks section.

Return value

If the function succeeds, the return value is NERR_Success.

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

Remarks

This function applies only to Server Message Block (SMB) shares. For other types of shares, such as Distributed File System (DFS) or WebDAV shares, use Windows Networking (WNet) functions, which support all types of shares.

Only members of the Administrators or Power Users local group, or those with Print or Server Operator group membership, can successfully execute the NetShareSetInfo function. The Print Operator can set information only about Printer shares.

If the NetShareSetInfo function returns ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER, you can use the parm_err parameter to indicate the first member of the share information structure that is not valid. (A share information structure begins with SHARE_INFO_ and its format is specified by the level parameter.) The following table lists the values that can be returned in the parm_err parameter and the corresponding structure member that is in error. (The prefix shi* indicates that the member can begin with multiple prefixes, for example, shi2 or shi502_.)

If you are programming for Active Directory, you may be able to call certain Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI) methods to achieve the same functionality you can achieve by calling the network management share functions. For more information, see IADsFileShare.

If 503 is specified for the level parameter, the remote server specified in the shi503_servername member of the SHARE_INFO_503 structure must have been bound to a transport protocol using the NetServerTransportAddEx function. In the call to NetServerTransportAddEx, either 2 or 3 must have been specified for the level parameter, and the SVTI2_SCOPED_NAME flag must have been specified in the SERVER_TRANSPORT_INFO_2 structure for the transport protocol.

Examples

The following code sample demonstrates how to set the comment associated with a shared resource using a call to the NetShareSetInfo function. To do this, the sample specifies information level 1004 (SHARE_INFO_1004).

#ifndef UNICODE
#define UNICODE
#endif
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <lm.h>
#pragma comment(lib, "Netapi32.lib")

void wmain( int argc, TCHAR *argv[ ])
{
   SHARE_INFO_1004 p;
   NET_API_STATUS res;
   DWORD parm_err = 0;

   if(argc<4)
      printf("Usage: SetInfo server share \"remark\"\n");
   else
   {
      //
      // Fill in SHARE_INFO_1004 structure member.
      //
      p.shi1004_remark=argv[3];
      //
      // Call the NetShareSetInfo function,
      //  specifying information level 1004.
      //
      res=NetShareSetInfo(argv[1], argv[2], 1004, (LPBYTE)&p, &parm_err);
      //
      // Display the result of the call.
      //
      if(res==0)
         printf("Remark set.\n");
      else
         printf("Error: %u\tparmerr=%u\n", res, parm_err);
   }
   return;
}

Requirements

See also

NetServerTransportAddEx

NetShareGetInfo

Network Management Functions

Network Management Overview

Network Share Functions

SHARE_INFO_1

SHARE_INFO_1004

SHARE_INFO_1005

SHARE_INFO_1006

SHARE_INFO_1501

SHARE_INFO_2

SHARE_INFO_502

SHARE_INFO_503