How to assign network path to cfiledialog

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Hi I need to assign initial directory Path for CFileDialog as network path that contains IP Address like
"\\\\192.168.1.1\\Log"
The member used to assign the path does not work in this regard...as given below:
CFileDialog.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir = _T("\\\\192.168.1.1\\Log")

Kindly let me know the solution in this regard
Thanks

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CFileDialog.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir = _T("\\\\192.168.1.1\\Log")

Posted 18-Jun-19 1:51am

Wahaj Khan

Updated 19-Jun-19 6:15am

KarstenK

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Richard MacCutchan 18-Jun-19 9:05am

You need to reference the location as a Windows mapped drive letter.

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steveb · Answer 1 · 2019-06-19T06:15:00

can you access that directory via file explorer? If not than programmatic approach will fail also.

this code should not compile

CFileDialog.m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir = _T("\\\\192.168.1.1\\Log")

and on the other hand this will create an inaccessible temporary variable

CFileDialog().m_ofn.lpstrInitialDir = _T("\\\\192.168.1.1\\Log")

also unicode paths formed like so:

L"\\\\?\\My Folder"