Script help required

[clareq]

Yes, that's right.

[Arthur]

I'm obviously becoming too programmed by PowerShell and neglecting sometimes simpler, more elegant solutions.

If you want something simple and elegant don't copy ancient (6+ year old) PowerShell scripts you find on the Internet.

 

The following is the PowerShell equivalent of @snagrat's one-liner.

 

Get-ChildItem -Directory | ForEach { New-SmbShare -Name ('{0}{1}' -f $_.BaseName,'$') -Path $_.FullName -FullAccess Everyone -CachingMode None }

 

and if you ever need to bulk remove the shares...

 

Get-ChildItem -Directory | ForEach { Get-SmbShare -Name ('{0}{1}' -f $_.BaseName,'$') | Remove-SmbShare -Confirm:$false }

[pcstru]

If you want something simple and elegant don't copy ancient (6+ year old) PowerShell scripts you find on the Internet.

heh.To be fair, I put my AD scripts together a few years ago (~4) and sometimes it's just the quickest thing to work that gets the job. Was the Smbshare stuff actually available back then?

Edited October 17, 2016 by pcstru

[Arthur]

Was the Smbshare stuff actually available back then?

It was actually.

 

heh. To be fair, I put my AD scripts together a few years ago (~4) and sometimes it's just the quickest thing to work that gets the job.

That's fair enough. Personally I sometimes revisit older scripts as I usually find there are better/easier ways to achieving the same task.

[pcstru]

Personally I sometimes revisit older scripts as I usually find there are better/easier ways to achieving the same task.

Trying to do exactly that I find it is not available on my local client machine. I admit we are not in any sense living on the bleeding edge. I prefer others to have the fun of that!

[Arthur]

I find it is not available on my local client machine.

Windows 7?