Windows Share Searching...

[CyberSurfer]

I need to find away to search all shares on multiple servers to see if a particular subdirectory of a share exists. Is there a quick way to do this? I ask coz there are 11 servers (same share name on each) and 167 shares to find

Any help VERY much appreciated

Windows 2000, BTW.

[CyberSurfer]

Come ooooon, someone must know!!!

[plenderj]

Well.

Download some networking code from the web. Enumerate all servers on the network with shares.
Store the server names in an array.

Then :

Dim i As Long
Open "c:\netview.bat" For Output As #1
    For i = 0 To UBound(strServerNames)
        Print #1, "@if exist \\" & strServerNames(i) & "\myShareName\ echo Share found on server : " & strServerNames(i)
    Next
    Print #1, "@pause"
Close #1
Shell "c:\netview.bat"

... that's how I'd do it.
So basically you need the names of the servers in a batch file...

[CyberSurfer]

Don't have access to VB at work...any chance you could knock me up a quick util???

[plenderj]

I only have VB.NET... I'll try hang on.

[CyberSurfer]

Cheers I need to install it on 98 tho, the 2K machine is a Citrix desktop...

[plenderj]

Try this. Tell me if it gives you server names.

[CyberSurfer]

Missing MSCOREE.dll....guessing it's part of the .NET framework, but I ain't installing it on my pitiful PII laptop with Win98

Cheers for trying anyway

[plenderj]

I would do it for you in VStudio6 but I don't have it installed anymore. Sorry about that

[CyberSurfer]

No worries, I think I'm just gonna procrastinate and leave the problem for a while anyway

[mendhak]

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