Apr 30, 2012 Posted by newlife007 on Apr 30, 2012 in Scripting | 0 comments

Creating Folder Shares with PowerShell

Here is a cool little function that you can use to create a share on a system. Save this function in a PowerShell module and load to your toolset.To run this cfunction you must have full administrator privileges, this function also sets the ErrorActionPreference to stop.

function New-Share {
param($Path, $Name)
try {
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
if ( (Test-Path $Path) -eq $false) {
$null = New-Item -Path $Path -ItemType Directory
}
net share $Name=$Path
}
catch {
Write-Warning "Create a new share: Failed, $_"
}
}

To use the new function open up a PowerShell command and type:

PS C:\> New-Share c:\temp TempShare

TempShare was shared successfully.

Now you should be able to see the new share you have created. You will want to go in and set access permissions to the new share you created.

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