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mn777
mn777

Reputation: 33

Environment Variable Path pointing to different system

I am not sure whether it is the right question to ask or not.

I have an exe which gets the value of the environment variable (Path) and searches for the dlls which are required for this exe to continue. So the environment variable's path is the local path something like : C:\Program Files\Security

Is it possible make this path a remote one ? It can be like : //10.x.x.x/sys/security or //sysname/sys/security .

Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2510

Answers (1)

mockinterface
mockinterface

Reputation: 14860

It is indeed possible, but is a bad idea.

A system path that contains a UNC path may cause severe system problems and severe software problems. Therefore, a system path that contains a UNC path is unsupported.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978856

Although it says it applies to the server editions, I suspect that the general advice applies to Windows in general.

Upvotes: 1

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