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Gutz-Pilz
Gutz-Pilz

Reputation: 329

Get network drive letter by name in PowerShell

I'd like to remove network drives from the system using a PowerShell script.

I need to find the drive by name, as the command $net.RemoveNetworkDrive('P:',1) needs the driveletter.

Is there a command to find the network drive letter in PowerShell?

My script:

$Drive = "\\192.168.2.117\Blabla"
echo $Drive
cls
    if (((New-Object -Com WScript.Network).EnumNetworkDrives() | Where-Object {$_ -eq $Drive})) 
    {
       echo 'found Drive'
       #$net = $(New-Object -comobject WScript.Network)
       #$net.RemoveNetworkDrive('P:',1)
    } 
    else
    {
        echo 'Drive not there'
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3953

Answers (3)

Niels
Niels

Reputation: 194

You could try the following method for getting the drive information:

$Drive = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_mappedLogicalDisk `
         -filter "ProviderName='\\\\192.168.2.117\\Blabla'"
$Drive.Name

$Drive.Name would become the drive letter which should allow you to the do the following:

$net = $(New-Object -comobject WScript.Network)
$net.RemoveNetworkDrive($Drive.Name,$true)

Upvotes: 3

specializt
specializt

Reputation: 1911

the actual solution is a combination of Win32_LogicalDisk and your PS cmdlet : 

$net = $(New-Object -comobject WScript.Network)

foreach($driveLetter in Get-WMIObject -query "Select * From Win32_LogicalDisk Where DriveType = 4" | Select-Object DeviceID)
{
    #$net.RemoveNetworkDrive($driveLetter, $True)
    echo $driveLetter
}

This will remove networkdrives only and does not need any weird UNC path or something.

Btw : dont use 1 where a boolean is expected, that paradigm will break your scripts one day ... its what professionals call "bad code"

Upvotes: -1

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 5871

I would suggest using Get-PSDrive instead of a COM Object.

Following code should work:

#get drive by root (note that we use "displayroot" for the comparison, "root" contains the driveletter)
Get-PSDrive | where {$_.DisplayRoot -eq "\\192.168.2.117\BlaBla"} | Remove-PSDrive

Or in Case you have to use the ComObject to remove the drive you can do the following:

$driveletter = (Get-PSDrive | where {$_.DisplayRoot -eq "\\192.168.2.117\BlaBla"}).root
$net.RemoveNetworkDrive($driveletter,$True)

Upvotes: 1

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