How to Manage File Shares Using ADSI

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SUMMARY

This article describes how to use Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) to manage file shares on local and remote computers.

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You can use ADSI to write scripts or programs to manage shares on both local and remote computers. The different properties you can use in the IADsFileShare object are listed in the following table.

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Property	Description
CurrentUserCount	The number of users currently connected to the share. (Read Only)
Description	The friendly description for the file share.
HostComputer	The ADsPath for the computer in which this share resides.
MaxUserCount	The maximum number of users that are allowed to connect to this share simultaneously.
Path	The local file system path for the shared folder.

The following scripts, written in VBScript, take advantage of the IADsFileShare object.

The Create_Share.vbs script creates a new share on 'MYCOMPUTER,' and then sets some of the common file share attributes.

Set ShareSrvObj = GetObject("WinNT://MYCOMPUTER/LANMANSERVER")
Set NewShareObj = ShareSrvObj.Create("fileshare", "DWNLDShare")
NewShareObj.Path = "C:\Download"
NewShareObj.MaxUserCount = 10
NewShareObj.Description = "This is a share for my downloaded files."
NewShareObj.SetInfo

The List_Shares.vbs script lists all of the shares on 'MYCOMPUTER' and the local path for the share.

Set ShareSrvObj = GetObject("WinNT://MYCOMPUTER/LANMANSERVER")
For Each ShareObj in ShareSrvObj
    WScript.Echo ShareObj.Name & " = " ShareObj.Path
Next

For information about ADSI, please visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/activedirectory/default.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/activedirectory/default.mspx)

For information about Windows Script Host, please visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950396.aspx (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950396.aspx)