Question

I’m receiving feedback from a developer that ‘The only way visual basic (6) can deal with a UNC path is to map it to a drive.’ Is this accurate? And, if so, what’s the underlying issue and are there any alternatives other than a mapped drive?

Answer 1

Here is one way that works.

Sub Main()      Dim fs As New FileSystemObject ' Add Reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime     MsgBox fs.FileExists('\\server\folder\file.ext')  End Sub