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TetraFlash
TetraFlash

Reputation: 327

Powershell windows shares without WMI

Simple question, though I fear I wont like the answer. Currently I have a script for performing permission audits, get folders recursively then get-acl... so on and so forth.

I am using this line for a browsing part of the utility:

$Shares = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Share -ComputerName $text | Where-Object { $_.type  -ne 1}

This is working wonderfully however I want our lowest level techs to be able to run this. They have permissions enough to perform all get-acl calls however they cannot navigate the broswer I wrote because they are not server admins, which they would have to be to perform a WMI call.

Long story short... is there a way to get a list of shares from a server without a WMI call? I cannot find a way in my googlings.... but am having a hard time accepting that because all users can type "\servername\" into their explorer and BAM there they are... must be a powershell way to mimic that.

All hints, notions and wild out-there ideas are welcome

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2417

Answers (2)

Zeek
Zeek

Reputation: 36

Not sure if this will work for you but try this:

([adsi]"WinNT://$computername/LanmanServer,FileService").Children | Select-Object @(
  @{n='CurrentUserCount';e={$_.CurrentUserCount}}
  @{n='Name';            e={$_.Name.Value}}
  @{n='Server';          e={$_.HostComputer | Split-Path -Leaf}}
  @{n='Path';            e={$_.Path.Value}}
  @{n='Description';     e={$_.Description.Value}}
)

Upvotes: 1

Marc Sherman
Marc Sherman

Reputation: 2363

Does net view \\computername work for them? Type net view /? for help on this command. Run that from a command prompt or PS prompt.

Upvotes: 2

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