Share existing folders under a root share

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1

Hello,

I’m not very good with PS.

I need to share all users Home drive profile folders under their root file system share. I need to do this to enable some restore capability with a Hitachi product. Each profile folder simply needs to be share with Full control share permissions for ‘Everyone.’

I was able to get it working with the ‘New-Smbshare’ cmd.

This works-

New-smbshare -name TEST -path D:\PATH -FullAccess Everyone

Going further in trying to deal with all profile folders. Some root file systems could have a few hundred profile folders to share.

$RootShare = "\prdjcaveuchdi02.prod-am.ameritrade.com\c$\fs_jc_users_mz1\FS2-UsersYZ"

$FolderList = “zso824-Disabled” #((Get-ChildItem $RootShare ) |Sort Name).name

Exclude Disabled folders, folders that start with #, Exclude Files

ForEach ($Path in $FolderList){
$LongPath = $RootShare + $Path
New-smbshare -name $Path -path $LongPath -FullAccess Everyone -WhatIf
}

Get this error:
New-smbshare : The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
At line:9 char:5

  • New-smbshare -name $Path -path $LongPath -FullAccess Everyone -WhatIf

  • ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    • CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (MSFT_SMBShare:ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/SMB/MSFT_SMBShare) [New-SmbShare], CimException
    • FullyQualifiedErrorId : Windows System Error 123,New-SmbShare

Going further, it looks like I need to use Get-WMI because I am connecting to a Hitachi HDI (Linux based NAS)

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Share -ComputerName “prdjcaveuchdi02.prod-am.ameritrade.com”

$share = Get-WmiObject Win32_Share -List -ComputerName “prdjcaveuchdi02”

$share.create(“\prdjcaveuchdi02.prod-am.ameritrade.com\c$\marcus”, “marcus”, 0)

I then get the error below. (note - that this did work remotely when connecting to another Windows system. Hitachi fails)

Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)
At line:1 char:1

  • Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Share -ComputerName "prdjcaveuchdi02.prod-am.ameritra …
  •   + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Get-WmiObject], COMException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetWMICOMException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWmiObjectCommand

I am concerned the this HItachi system won’t allow or support RPC.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

thank you
Jay

2

Hi Jay,

As you experienced the Hitachi HDI appliance does not support WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) because it is Linux based and Hitachi has not implemented OMI (Open Management Instrumentation) from what I can tell after a little Google fuh.

However Hitachi has exposes an XML based API via HTTP/HTTPS as you can read in below PDF to create a CIFSShare for example.

I think the best approach would be to reach out to Hitachi to help you. I do not have access to Hitachi systems and I guess most of the people answering in these forums do not have access either.

Best,
Daniel

3

Thanks Daniel. Good advice. I have reached out to Hitachi for assistance.

Jay