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Is there a command that can be used from the command line to output a list of the mapped network drives on the local system and their location on the network to a text file?
This will only be used on Windows-based systems running Windows XP.
List mapped network drives from the command line to text file
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net use > mapped_drives.txt should dump a list of mapped drives to the text file mapped_drives.txt
Although I tested this on Windows 7, Microsoft says net use will work on Windows XP
Sathyajith Bhat
Posted 2010-04-29T00:58:11.750
Reputation: 58 436
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NET USE was only displaying the mapped drives for my current user and current connection. After some more googling, I got here:
The drive mapping info is stored in the Registry, look in HKEY_USERS\USER\Network
So I did a reg query HKEY_USERS to list the users (which were some windows codes), then I queried all of them individually, for example:
reg query HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4205028929-649740040-1951280400-500\Network /s
If you query all of them, then you get all the mappings for all users.
msb
Posted 2010-04-29T00:58:11.750
Reputation: 1 167
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Save the following as a .vbs file and run it. It'll create a MappedDrives.txt in the folder the vbs file is run from. You can replace the strComptuer with another computer's name and get the list off of a remote computer as well.
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objOutFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(".\MappedDrives.txt")
Set colDrives = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * From Win32_LogicalDisk Where DriveType = 4")
For Each objDrive in colDrives
objOutFile.WriteLine(objDrive.DeviceID & " (" & _
objDrive.ProviderName & ")")
Next
objOutFile.Close
Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
Posted 2010-04-29T00:58:11.750
Reputation: 103 763
Woah. This is bad ass. No idea it was possible (1) to write a query for drives, and (2) to do it remotely. Awesome post. – kevinarpe – 2013-02-26T09:39:57.770
@MaterialEdge : Welcome! – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-04-29T02:20:41.683
Where is the location of the txt file? – G Flores – 2016-10-05T01:12:27.980
2@GeorgeLaed it will be in the same location as where you ran the command from – Sathyajith Bhat – 2016-10-05T05:17:18.180
Note, under Windows 8 and above, this will not work in an elevated (run as administrator) command prompt because it's in a different security context. Open a "normal" command prompt to execute the command. – GreatAndPowerfulOz – 2016-10-07T16:23:29.527
"net use" works in Win10 with normal permissions (blank list if you run the command window with admin permissions). – J. Chris Compton – 2019-03-06T21:02:04.147
2I can confirm that it works on Windows XP. – Peter Mortensen – 2014-01-08T08:59:14.573