MapNetworkDrive without drive letter does what?

I'm looking for a very simple way in VBScript for checking if the
current user has Administrative rights on his Windows XP machine. I
searched through the web and came up with this:

http://groups.msn.com/windowsscript/...ortstring=1a2a

Since I cannot be sure which drives the users has mapped already I
simply tried to remove the drive letter and it seems to work!

Function CurrentUserIsAdministrator()
Dim nw
CurrentUserIsAdministrator = True

Set nw = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")

On Error Resume Next
nw.MapNetworkDrive "", "\\" & nw.ComputerName & "\Admin$"
If Err.number <> 0 Then
CurrentUserIsAdministrator = False
Err.Clear
End If
On Error Goto 0
End Function

What exactly does the above do? It seems to work exactly the way I
want it to, but according to MS the first parameter of MapNetworkDrive
cannot be empty. If I try to map a shared folder manually I also have
the option "(none)" to choose from among all the drive letters. The
only thing that happens then seems to be that the folder opens...or is
something happening that I don't notice?

<polykobol@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for a very simple way in VBScript for checking if the
> current user has Administrative rights on his Windows XP machine. I
> searched through the web and came up with this:
>
> http://groups.msn.com/windowsscript/...ortstring=1a2a
>
> Since I cannot be sure which drives the users has mapped already I
> simply tried to remove the drive letter and it seems to work!
>
> Function CurrentUserIsAdministrator()
> Dim nw
> CurrentUserIsAdministrator = True
>
> Set nw = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
>
> On Error Resume Next
> nw.MapNetworkDrive "", "\\" & nw.ComputerName & "\Admin$"
> If Err.number <> 0 Then
> CurrentUserIsAdministrator = False
> Err.Clear
> End If
> On Error Goto 0
> End Function
>
> What exactly does the above do? It seems to work exactly the way I
> want it to, but according to MS the first parameter of MapNetworkDrive
> cannot be empty. If I try to map a shared folder manually I also have
> the option "(none)" to choose from among all the drive letters. The
> only thing that happens then seems to be that the folder opens...or is
> something happening that I don't notice?

It creates a UNC path to a share on some machine, which is
visible in "My Computer" as a shared drive without drive letter.

On 24 Jan, 15:39, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com.oz> wrote:
>
> It creates a UNC path to a share on some machine, which is
> visible in "My Computer" as a shared drive without drive letter.

Hmm...I can't find it in "My Computer", but I can see it if I run "NET
USE".