<div class="content"><p>The CprepConnectToNewSmbShares3 method attempts to connect
to shares represented by <b>ClusPrepShares</b> in the <b>ClusprepShareList</b>
at the given list of IP address strings.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> HRESULT CprepConnectToNewSmbShares3(
   [in, string, size_is(dwNumberOfPaths,)] 
     LPWSTR* ppwszSharePaths,
   [in] DWORD dwNumberOfPaths
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>ppwszSharePaths: </b>Specifies the address of a <i>dwNumberOfPaths</i>-sized
block of <a href="../ms-dtyp/50e9ef83-d6fd-4e22-a34a-2c6b4e3c24f3" data-linktype="relative-path">LPWSTR</a>s.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>A signed 32-bit value that
indicates return status. If the method returns a negative value, it has failed.
Zero or positive values indicate success, with the lower 16 bits in positive nonzero
values containing warnings or flags defined in the method implementation. For
more information about Win32 error codes and HRESULT values, see <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>
sections <a href="../ms-erref/18d8fbe8-a967-4f1c-ae50-99ca8e491d2d" data-linktype="relative-path">2.2</a>
and <a href="../ms-erref/0642cb2f-2075-4469-918c-4441e69c548a" data-linktype="relative-path">2.1</a>.</p><dl>
<dd>
<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Return value/code</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Description</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>
  <p>0x00000000</p>
  <p>S_OK</p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>The call was successful. The connection used at least
  one of the file <a href="b30bcd1c-8ff6-46d2-a27e-61bd85ace9f4#gt_a49a79ea-dac7-4016-9a84-cf87161db7e3" data-linktype="relative-path">shares</a>
  specified in <i>ppwszSharePaths</i>.</p>
  </td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>
  <p>0x80070057</p>
  <p>E_INVALIDARG</p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>One or more arguments are invalid.</p>
  </td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd>
<dd>
<p>For any other condition, this method MUST return a
value that is not one of the values listed in the preceding table. The client
MUST behave in one consistent, identical manner for all values that are not
listed in the preceding table.</p>
</dd></dl><p>Exceptions Thrown: No exceptions are thrown beyond those
thrown by the underlying <a href="b30bcd1c-8ff6-46d2-a27e-61bd85ace9f4#gt_8a7f6700-8311-45bc-af10-82e10accd331" data-linktype="relative-path">RPC</a>
protocol <a href="../ms-rpce/290c38b1-92fe-4229-91e6-4fc376610c15" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-RPCE]</a>.</p><p>The <a href="b30bcd1c-8ff6-46d2-a27e-61bd85ace9f4#gt_e127848e-c66d-427d-b3aa-9f904fa4ada7" data-linktype="relative-path">opnum</a>
field value for this method is 8.</p><p>When processing this call, the server MUST do the following:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Via an implementation-specific mechanism, connect to the shares
represented by <b>ClusPrepShares</b> in the <b>ClusprepShareList</b>, using one
or more of the IP addresses passed. </p>
</li></ul></div>