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How I can create and remove a network drive from Inno Setup?

I'm writing a Inno Setup script which need to execute a very old third party setup application, this old installer (called setup.exe) only works from a root folder (if not fails), so I need to create (and remove) a network drive to copy the files of this installer and then execute the setup.exe. so the question is how i can create and remove network drive from Inno Setup? I am looking something like the WNetAddConnection function.

Solution

  • You can use the WshNetwork object, which is part of the Windows Script Host:

    var
  WshNetWork : Variant;
begin
  WshNetWork:=CreateOleObject('WScript.Network');
  //create the network drive
  WshNetwork.MapNetworkDrive('H:', '\\localhost\c$\data');

  //do your stuff here

  //remove the network drive
  WshNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive('H:');
end;