Vista - Change share script

Hello,

I am relatively new to scripting. In an effort to NOT wake up at 1:30 in the
morrning to migrate a share, does anyone know a vbscript to do that? Here's
what I have (all Win2003):

\\server1\oldshare is the old share. We've migrated the data in the share to
a SAN and now it's stored in \\server1\newshare

I want a script that will copy the NTFS permissions and then delete the
share to 'oldshare' while creating the share to 'newshare'

Anyone have a path for me to take here?

TIA!

Jon

"Jon LaBarge" <jon.labarge@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e8lG3x$1JHA.1712@xxxxxxThe following three commands will do the trick:
@echo off
net share oldshare /delete
net share newshare="d:\User Files\ShareName"
permcopy.exe {Technical Resource Kit}

I would actually use robocopy.exe to copy the files to the new destination -
it has a switch to copy NTFS permissions. You can do it with a VB Script too
but you will end up with a much more complex solution, which requires much
more testing and debugging.

However . . . If this is a production server and if people's ability to do
their job depends on the availability of the various shares then I would get
up at 1:30 am and supervise the delivery of this baby and test things in
full. Most of my clients would take a dim view of me having a undisturbed
rest while their system is falling to pieces. How tolerant is your
boss/client? How secure is your job? Anyone nipping at your heels?

I forgot to mention that this also need to be a hidden share. Is there a
switch that I need to include?


"Pegasus [MVP]" <news@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Share are hidden when they have a "$" at the end of their name.


"Jon LaBarge" <jon.labarge@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Right, but when I create the share with the script, it simply makes it the
default name of the folder. Is there a switch in the script that would allow
it to add the $ in the share name?


"Pegasus [MVP]" <news@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jon LaBarge" <jon.labarge@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e5cSkcA2JHA.1372@xxxxxxNo, you just put the "$" signs where they need to be - as part of the share
name:

@echo off
net share oldshare$ /delete
net share newshare$="d:\User Files\ShareName"
permcopy.exe {Technical Resource Kit}

But I am curious. The workers will come in the next morning and need to get
at their old data that is now stored at a new UNC location. Will that part
of the change be automated so they will not need to know the UNC?


/Al

Al,

It's a Citrix Terminal Server topology. Their profiles are stored centrally.

Jon

"Al Dunbar" <alandrub@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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