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What drives are already mapped dumped to a file

Asked by: The_Spaz

We have roughly 1500 machines and would like it when they login to have a script (preferably no popups) that somehow will just show all their currently mapped drives  (similar to net use) and just dump it somewhere on the network to a file by machin name.  anyone done this.  Also, all the machines are in a domain.  This doesn't have to a be login script but even something that can be run from a domain controller would be really cool.  Please no WMI scripting as it is not turned on by default here.  Thanks! No split points here. If it is something we can use you get 250.  

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Answers

 

by: tgerbertPosted on 2009-01-30 at 12:09:15ID: 23512348

Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
 
Const OutputSaveLocation = "\\server\share\folder\"    'Include trailing backslash
 
Dim net
Dim fso
Dim file
Dim mappings
Dim i
 
Set net = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
Set file = fso.CreateTextFile(OutputSaveLocation & net.ComputerName & ".txt", True)
 
Set mappings = net.EnumNetworkDrives
 
For i = 0 To mappings.Count - 1 Step 2
	file.WriteLine mappings(i) & Chr(9) & mappings(i + 1)
Next
 
file.Close
                                              
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by: SysExpertPosted on 2009-01-30 at 12:49:35ID: 23512802

why not just
net use > textfile.txt


I hope this helps !

 

by: tgerbertPosted on 2009-01-30 at 13:33:03ID: 23513227

Ha, that occurred to me as well - although it seemed way too sensible so I went ahead and suggested the VBScript. ;)


Also, try

net use | find "\\" > \\server\share\%COMPUTERNAME%.txt

to just get the lines from "net use" of interest.

 

by: The_SpazPosted on 2009-01-30 at 19:29:19ID: 23515129

Net use > textfile won't work because we need it by machine name that is what I originaly was going to use by the by machine name got me and thus the reason I posted.  

 

by: RobSampsonPosted on 2009-01-30 at 21:21:09ID: 23515450

tgerbert's latest command *will* output to a file for the computer name, *BUT* this will only show connections for the user account running the script.  You can not obtain such profile information remotely, because you cannot impersonate the curently logged on person.

Perhaps it would be better to use:
net use | find "\\" > \\server\share\%COMPUTERNAME%_%USERNAME%.txt

So that you get a list of per computer, then per user, and which drives they have connected.

Regards,

Rob.

 

by: The_SpazPosted on 2009-02-02 at 07:15:48ID: 23527573

I think this command looks promising
net use | find "\\" > \\server\share\%COMPUTERNAME%_%USERNAME%.txt
except that it would create 1500 files (1500 machines).  How about something just like the above but will dump it all to one file so that we could then just import it into something like excel and then sort it.   We are getting close and so are those 250 points for someone.  

 

by: tgerbertPosted on 2009-02-02 at 07:32:44ID: 23527778

I'm sure it could be done with command lines, but I find CMD scripts convoluted & difficult to read; I would use VBScript.  With that many client machines, though, I would consider using a simple SQL database.

Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
 
Dim net
Dim file
Dim mappings
Dim i
Dim dbConnection
 
Set dbConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set net = CreateObject("WScript.Network")

dbConnection.Open "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=SQLServerName;Initial Catalog=SQLDatabaseName;UserID=username;Password=pass"
Set mappings = net.EnumNetworkDrives
 
For i = 0 To mappings.Count - 1 Step 2
            dbConnection.Execute "INSERT INTO TableName (ComputerName,DriveLetter,Path) VALUES(" & _
                  "'" & net.ComputerName & "','" & mappings(i) & "','" & mappings(i + 1) & "')"
Next
 
dbConnection.Close

Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
 
Const OutputSaveLocation = "\\server\share\DriveMappings.csv"
Const ForAppending = 8
 
Dim net
Dim fso
Dim file
Dim mappings
Dim i
 
Set net = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
Set file = fso.OpenTextFile(OutputSaveLocation, ForAppending, True)
 
Set mappings = net.EnumNetworkDrives
 
For i = 0 To mappings.Count - 1 Step 2
        file.WriteLine """" & net.ComputerName & """,""" & mappings(i) & """,""" & mappings(i + 1) & """"
Next
 
file.Close

                                              
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by: RobSampsonPosted on 2009-02-02 at 14:56:18ID: 23532444

You could run this command and just import it into Excel as a fixed width text file....

echo %COMPUTERNAME%_%USERNAME% >> \\Server\Share\Network_Drives.txt && net use | find "\\" >> \\Server\Share\Network_Drives.txt

That runs two command, one writes the computer name and username to the text file, the second write the network drives.  Hopefully there's no write conflict issues with this approach.

Regards,

Rob.

 

by: The_SpazPosted on 2009-02-03 at 19:16:13ID: 31541107

Good one.  No vbs just a clean script.  This works.  Enjoy the points and thanks to all for helping

 

by: RobSampsonPosted on 2009-02-03 at 19:47:17ID: 23544826

Mmmm, points! YUM!  ;-)

Thanks for the grade.  Glad it works for you.

Regards,

Rob.

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