how to get Network mapped drive VolumeLabel in C#?

Question

So for example, if i have drive Z:NetworkDrive, which mapped to shared folder on another server, and i want to return volumelabel "NetworkDrive". Next code seems to work:

 foreach (DriveInfo drive in drives)
            {
                if (drive.DriveType == DriveType.Network)
                    mappedDrivesNames.Add(drive.VolumeLabel);
            }

But it return the name of the first shared folder from the list on server. Any ideas, why this happened?

Interesting question. "Network Drive" isn't the label of the drive. Windows Explorer shows "Network Drive" as the drive's type. In a command box, the `label z:` command would show the actual label of the volume the drive is connected to. — comecme, Dec 16 '10 at 08:35

comecme · Answer 1 · 2010-12-16T09:51:55.153

If I just code

var drive = new DriveInfo("Z");
Console.WriteLine(drive.VolumeLabel);

It is showing me the Label of the Volume the network share is on. I have my drive Z: connected to a share on a Windows XP computer and the share is on a NTFS formatted drive. If I remove the label for that volume, the program will output an empty line.

I don't know what the expected result should be if the share is on a Linux machine. I don't know if Linux has something like a Label, but I don't think so.

how to get Network mapped drive VolumeLabel in C#?

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