Cannot disconnect a shared drive with Runtime

[EricHamel]

Hi:

I need to disconnect a network share on Windows before I reconnect that drive to another share. Somehow, the disconnect doesn't work. The code:

Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
try {
rt.exec(new String("net use t: /delete"));
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Failed: " + e.getMessage());
}

I don't get a failed message, but the drive does not get disconnected. When I run that command in a command window (net use t: /delete), the command executes just fine.

As further info, if I don't have anything connected to t:, the subsequent connection command:

rt.exec(new String("net use t: " + newSharePath + " /persistent:yes"));

works just fine. It will not work, however, if something is still connected to t:.

Any hints would be appreciated as to why the disconnect doesn't work from Java using Runtime.

Regards,

Éric

[Norm]

Have you looked at the streams for the Process to see if there are any error messages there?

[EricHamel]

Well, more research yielded the following:

net use will (silently!) not disconnect a drive if that drive is active somehow (like if you have it selected in Windows Explorer). And there is not an option to force disconnect, as there is with Windows Scripting Host.

So I guess I'll have to look into learning to use WSH through com4j.

Éric