Help in discovering network drives with c# (Unity, Android, Windows)

Hi Everyone

I'm a developer of a VR media player (Whirligig) and I've had many requests for accessing network locations in both windows and android based headsets. My skills in c# are very much Unity3D based and I'm struggling to find a solution or get pointed in the right direction for coding something like this.

I guess the code I need is a way to scan and list the network locations, provide the ip address and name of those locations and be able to connect to those locations if they have a password.

Is there anyone out there that could help point me in the right direction for this? Direct help here would be very apricated but I'm happy if someone could maybe give me a clue where to look and the code to use as well :)

All the best

Philippa

Hey,

Hope you're keeping well.

On Windows, you can enumerate mapped network drives using System.IO.DriveInfo.GetDrives() and filter for DriveType.Network, or query UNC shares via WMI Win32_NetworkConnection) if you need more metadata. Discovering devices automatically requires network scanning (SMB, FTP, DLNA, etc.), which isn’t built into .NET—you’ll need to implement a protocol-specific discovery or use existing libraries. On Android within Unity, direct SMB access isn’t supported natively; you’d need a plugin or a .NET-compatible library like SharpSMB or wrap Java’s jcifs-ng for authentication and file listing. The key is to separate platform-specific discovery/connect logic behind an abstraction so your Unity code can call the right implementation depending on OS.

Thanks and regards,

Taz