NetShareAdd

The NetShareAdd function shares a server resource.

Security Requirements

Only members of the Administrators or Account Operators local group or those with Communication, Print, or Server operator group membership can successfully execute NetShareAdd. The Print operator can add only Printer queues. The Communication operator can add only communication-device queues.

NET_API_STATUS NetShareAdd(

LPTSTR servername,  
DWORD level,  
LPBYTE buf,  
LPDWORD parm_err  
);  

Parameters

servername

Pointer to a Unicode string containing the name of the remote server on which the function is to execute. A NULL pointer or string specifies the local computer.

level

Specifies one of the following values to set the level of information provided.

Value Meaning
2 The buf parameter points to an array of SHARE_INFO_2 structures.
502 The buf parameter points to an array of SHARE_INFO_502 structures.

buf

Pointer to the buffer in which the data set with the level parameter is stored.

parm_err

Optional pointer to a DWORD that contains the index of the first parameter that causes ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER. If NULL, the parameter is not returned on error.

See Also

NetShareDel