Get List of Network Shares using Powershell script

Description:

We can easily get the list of Network Shares/Share Folder, Devices, Disk Drives and Printers by using WMI class Win32_Share. But it will lists only NTFS Shares, not the Cluster Share Folders. You can use the alternative WMI class Win32_ClusterShare to list Cluster Shares. In this article, I am going write Powershell script samples to get list of Network Shares in Local Machine and Remote Computer.

Summary:

• List Network Shares in Local Machine
• List Network Shares from Remote Computer
• List only Network Share Folders (Not hidden shares)
• Export Network Shares List into CSV file

List Network Shares in Local Machine using Powershell

You can enumerate the Network Shares list by using Powerahell‘s WMI class Win32_Share. Here, FT is nothing but the Format-Table cmdlet, you can change it into FL to display result in list view.

Get-WMIObject -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_Share" | FT

List Network Shares from Remote Computer using Powershell

You can list the Network Shares from Remote Machine by giving name of the remote computer through argument syntax -ComputerName.

Get-WMIObject -ComputerName "your-pc" -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_Share" | FL

List only Network Share Folders (Not hidden shares) using Powershell

You can use SQL Query like syntax to apply filter in Win32_Share class. The following Powershell script, filters and list only Network Share Folders (Not hidden shares) by adding filter Type=0.

Get-WMIObject -ComputerName "your-pc" -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_Share Where Type=0" | FT

Export Network Shares to CSV using Powershell

You can export the Network Shares list into CSV using Powershell‘s Export-CSV cmdlet. The following script exports not hidden Network Share Folders to CSV file from Remote Computer.

Get-WMIObject -ComputerName "your-pc"`
 -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_Share Where Type=0" |
 Select-Object Name,Path,Description |
 Export-CSV 'C:\NetworkShares.csv'

Thanks,
Morgan