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3. A Windows Script For Listing all shares and their physical paths in a local computer Local System

Posted on WisdomBay @ 11:14 PM 2/27/2006 | Post by Pramod S Nair

This Windows Script coded in VBScript can quickly list all the shares found on a local computer. Apart from the Share name it also displays the actual physical path of the share also.

'A Windows Script For Listing all shares and their physical paths ' in a local computer 'Compiled by Pramod S Nair 'http://www.wisdombay.com 'Written 2:47 PM 02/24/2006 On Error Resume Next 'Create a WMI Object Set oWMISrv = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2") strQry = "Select * from Win32_Share" 'Query the WMI Service for finding the Boot Configuration of the machine. Set colItems = oWMISrv.ExecQuery (strQry) s = "" 'Now loop through each share For Each objItem in colItems s = s & objItem.Caption & vbtab & objItem.Name & vbtab & objItem.Path & vbnewline Next WScript.Echo s 'End of script

How to use :
1. Copy the code given above to clipboard.
2. Create a new file and name it as you like with a '.vbs' extension.
3. Now double clicking on the file will display all the shares created on the current machine along with their physical path.