Hello,

I am migrating a server that holds all the home folder for users to
another folder.  I robocopied the folders to the new folder but the
sharing does not copy.  I am trying to write a script to share the
folder and share it as hidden.  I know the syntax is "net share
username$=d:\Users\username /unlimited".  I need to loop it for all
the folders in a certain folder.  Also each share name has to be the
name of the folder with the $ to hide it.  Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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run this as a batch script in a .cmd file:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

    (set/p _root=Enter path of folder containing user folders: )
    for /d %%F in ("%_root%\*") do (
        (set _sn=%%~nF)
        echo/net share !_sn!$="%%~F" /unlimited
    )

When you are comfortable that the echo commands are showing net share
commands that do what you want, edit out the "echo/" and run again.

Note that this does no error checking, and problems will arise if any folder
names contain spaces.

What we used to do in such migrations was to save the share definitions from
the registry, edit them if required, and import them into the registry on
the new server. Not much fun, so now we don't bother sharing the users home
folders in favour of defining them with a UNC like:

    \\servername\usershares$\user1

instead of a share like:

    \\servername\user1$

This has no adverse effects unless you have win9x clients.

By the way, this was a bit trickier than I expected, because the most
obvious approach would be:

    for /d %%F in ("%_root%\*") do (
        echo/net share %%~nF$="%%~F" /unlimited
    )

For some reason that escapes me at present, this results in net share
commands like this:

    net share %~nF$="C:\test this\user1" /unlimited
    net share %~nF$="C:\test this\user2" /unlimited

anyone care to clue me in on this?

/Al

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