hidden shares

is it possible through the dos prompt or a 3rd party tool to view hidden shares on remote machines on the LAN?

Welcome to WD forums moochoo, "net share" will show you the ones you have permissions on. This shows the syntax for xp as an example.

net share only shows my local hidden shares.

i would like to view the hidden shares of my remote computers

unless i am reading the syntax for net share wrong that is!

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Originally Posted by moochoo

net share only shows my local hidden shares.

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Oh d'uh :rolleyes: - [begin shake head mode at self] confus-ed, didn't read it properly, my bad ! [/end]

But I seem to think we've had nearly this question before here Try this (View Domain Net Shares via DOS ) where I & others got a bit 'touchy' on motives, I should have said straight off - why not use management console ?

i wanted to do it at the command line for scripting purposes.

i shall have a look around see what i can find

You can make a script that runs on the remote machines using the great PSEXEC (part of PSTools) from www.sysinternals.com
Then you can write a couple of batch files to run on the remote systems:

LISTSHARES.BAT
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for /f %%i in (computerlist.txt) do psexec \\%%i -u YOURDOMAIN\Administrator -p AdminPassword -c remotescript.bat
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REMOTESCRIPT.BAT
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set log=\\yourserver\outputshare\output.txt
echo #### Listing shares for %computername% >>%log% ####
net share >>%log%
echo #### End of listing ####
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Just dump the list of remote machines in computerlist.txt and create a share on a server that has access from the administrator account.
After you run listshares.bat, the output.txt file will have all the details you need.

thanks a lot thats perfect for my needs!