Windows Networking

A Windows CE–based application can use Windows networking functions to establish and terminate network connections and to retrieve current configuration data for the Microsoft Network. Access to this data is made possible by way of the Windows CE networking API (WNet). WNet communicates through the Common Internet File System (CIFS) redirector to the remote host. A CIFS redirector is a module through which one computer can access another. An application can use WNet functions to manage network connections anywhere in the network hierarchy.

An application can access network resources using the Universal Naming Convention (UNC). UNC is a system for naming files on a network so that a file on a computer have the same path when accessed from any other computer. For example \\Servername\Sharename\Filename.ext; Servername is the server name, and Sharename is a directory on Servername that contains the file Filename.ext.

The Windows CE WNet API is similar to WNet for Windows-based desktop platforms with the following exceptions: