How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

re: How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

Share Name NOT being created correctly in Server 2008R2 — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:10:30 GMT

Hi Ed - I am using the following script which does create the folder and share / security permissions but does NOT set the Share Name correctly. It is defaulting to FredFlintstone with no "$".

Shouldn't the Share Name be able to be set the same as Win Server 2003?

$NasPath = 'Z:\EDrives\FredFlintstone'

$Shares=[WMICLASS]'WIN32_Share'

$ShareName='FredFlintstone$'

New-Item -type directory -Path $NasPath

$Shares.Create($NasPath,$ShareName,0)

$Acl = Get-Acl $NasPath

$Ar = New-Object system.security.accesscontrol.filesystemaccessrule('Fred Flintstone','FullControl','ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit', 'None', 'Allow')

$Acl.AddAccessRule($Ar)

Set-Acl $NasPath $Acl

re: How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

Jason M. Johnston — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:03:06 GMT

Ed are you saying that you can use Icacls to modify the permissions of the share as well as files?

re: How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

Joejoeinc — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:55:28 GMT

you are missing a closing bracket when you create your New-Share Function

re: How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

Knuckle-Dragger — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:25:51 GMT

thanks

re: How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

iconoclasticcreations — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 02:29:42 GMT

@LernerML

If you don't want certain directories shared, you could use this snippet:

$badpaths = "C:\applications","C:\applications\someapp","C:\temp","C:\newshare"

$servers = "Server1","Server2","Server3"

foreach($server in $servers){

$found = Get-WMIObject Win32_share -ComputerName $server

foreach($share in $found){

if($badpaths -contains $share.path){

$Share.Delete()

}

You could also check for shared local printers with ($share.type -eq 1)

It'd be really cool if you could see who created the share, and delete them based on creator, but I'm not that savvy. :(

re: How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

OldDog1 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:37:11 GMT

Looks like the guys left out a couple of ")"

Try this:

Function NEW-SHARE ($Foldername, $Sharename) {

# Test for existence of folder, if not there then create it

IF (!(TEST-PATH $Foldername)) {

NEW-ITEM $Foldername -type Directory }

# Create Share but check to make sure it isn’t already there

If (!(GET-WMIOBJECT Win32_Share -filter "name=$Sharename")) {

$Shares=[WMICLASS]"WIN32_Share"

$Shares.Create($Foldername,$Sharename,0)

}

re: How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

LearnerML — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:36:15 GMT

I have a opposite scenario. Users in the network have shared the folders & I have to stop them. Any chance by which I can do it with single powershell script?

re: How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

RPS — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:52:48 GMT

How do you perform the following on a remote computer?:

$Shares=[WMICLASS]"WIN32_Share"

I can tell it is different than gwmi win32_share -cn [remote]

re: How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

Frank Peter Schultze — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:35:51 GMT

The New-Share function will work if you add

$Shares=[WMICLASS]"WIN32_Share"

before the $Shares.Create line

re: How to Use PowerShell to Create Shared Folders in Windows 7

Ed Wilson — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:27:07 GMT

@Panda you could use sendkeys from the wshshell object, or you could try to use WASP from CodePlex.

@Davis check the Scripting Guys Script Repository ... I know we have some cluseter scripts else check MSDN

@Joe of course I did :-) I like to Use Icacls to do permissions, but I have an article coming up in which I am using WMI methods.