Accessing Remote File Systems

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Windows CE supports the CIFS redirector for accessing remote file systems and remote printers. The CIFS Protocol is also referred to as the SMB protocol. The redirector's purpose is twofold: to reestablish a disrupted connection and to handle remote file system requests by packaging them and sending them to the target host for processing. The target host returns results to the computer making the request.

The Windows CE redirector supports connections to Windows–based desktop platforms or servers compliant with the Windows NT LM 0.12 dialect of the CIFS specification. Applications access network drives either by way of WNet or a standard file system API with UNC paths.

To use the WNet functions under Windows CE, the redirector DLL, known as Redir.dll, and the NetBIOS DLL, known as Netbios.dll, must be installed in the Windows directory. If these DLLs are not installed, WNet functions return ERROR_NO_NETWORK.

**Note   **The NetBIOS DLL contains only what is necessary to support the CIFS redirector. Windows CE does not support the NetBIOS interface for use by other applications.

See Also

Windows Networking API/Redirector | Windows Networking API/Redirector Security

 Last updated on Saturday, April 10, 2004

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