Mapping network shares from a network is a pretty easy thing to do. The standard command for this in windows is:
net use x: \\{host}\{share} {password} /u:{unsername} /p:{no|yes}
where:
x = drive letter (a-z)
p = persistent (yes means re-map after system restart and no means the opposite)
Assuming you want to automate such action mapping more shares from different networks, you will want to use the FOR loop in a batch script. These steps will show my aproach:
1.) The first thing to do is create and place all your share information (host, share, password, username and drive letters in a file and name the file anything you want. To suite my purpose, I’ll jsut name the file “!” without any file extention. The content should look like this:
01,10.11.11.21,username,password,t,share
02,172.16.10.21,username,password,u,share
03,195.34.13.21,username,password,v,share
04,192.168.0.21,username,password,w,share
2.) Create a batch script to disconnect all existing network drives. Let’s name this file “delmap.bat”
REM ======================= Begin Of Script =============================
@echo off
REM Check and disconnect all existing network drives
cls
if exist t: net use /del t: /y
if exist u: net use /del u: /y
if exist v: net use /del v: /y
if exist w: net use /del w: /y
goto :EOF
REM ======================= End Of Script =============================
3.) Now, we can create the main script “NetShare.bat” with the following contents:
REM ======================= Begin Of Script =============================
@echo off
REM To avoid error messages, check and disconnect all existing network drives
REM by calling another batch file named delmap.bat.
cls
call “%~dp0\delmap.bat”
REM To avoid unexpected errors, the system needs to wait 3 seconds after
REM disconnecting all existing drives before re-mapping the network resources.
REM All pre-defined parameters in the file (!) will be fetched line by line using
REM the (for) loop. There are 6 columns in the file (!) separated by commas (delims).
REM The first is the line numbers (not needed). That is the reason why the tokens is
REM defined from 2-6. The pre-defined variables (hostN, userN, paswd, drive and share) are
REM passed one by one from the ‘sub routine’ (:var) to process the mapping of the drives.
cls
ping -n 3 127.0.0.1>nul
for /F “tokens=2-6 delims=,” %%g IN (!!) do call :var %%g %%h %%i %%j %%k
goto end
:var
set hostN=%1
set userN=%2
set paswd=%3
set drive=%4
set share=%5
net use %drive%: \\%hostN%\%share% %paswd% /U:%userN% /P:no
goto :EOF
:end
exit
REM ======================= End Of Script =============================
Download:
Both files NetShare.bat and delmap.bat are included in the dowload below:
You need to create your share information (!) by following the first step above.
