Share/UnShare files with script?

[nicedreams]

I need to be able to unshare a directory on a server at a specific time and then reshared after a period of time.

Some of my software at work can only auto update a program if people aren't in it. People leave work and don't close the program so it won't auto update at night because of that. I have 6 remote places that use this program so it's not like I can just make sure people aren't in the program. :p

How can I do this?

[Joel]

You can change their logon hours, one of the settings can be changed to log them off at the cutoff time. Or use the shutdown command to log the selected computers off at a time in the future.

[pizza]

You could disable the actual share, but I think a better way would be to just "stop" the "server" service. I'm on win 98 now, but I think it's something like 'net stop ......"

good luck

[nicedreams]

I haven't really looked into this, but my theory is:

if there is a command line "share" command, then I can schedule a *.bat file to unshare the folder between 2am to 4am and then reshare it after that using another *.bat file scheduled.

I'm going to research that and see if I can do it that way.

[hurting101]

I believe the closest thing to a SHARE command is net share.

You could use net share sharename to start sharing and net share sharename /delete to stop the share. I'm not sure if this will do exactly what you're looking for, but it's worth a shot.

More on net share:

start > run > cmd /k net share /?

Then, the share could be scheduled with the AT command. Be sure to test it out first, because AT can be a little tricky.

More on at:

start > run > cmd /k at /?

[nicedreams]

I figured it out.

I wrote 2 batch files

sharech.bat

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@echo off

net share ChromeData=G:\ChromeData

usharech.bat

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@echo off

net share ChromeData /delete

I then scheduled a job to run one script at a certian time and then run the other 2 hours later.

Thanks for the feed back and help anyways. :) Neowin is always there for us computer nerds. :p