Is it possible to create a script that will automate the sharing of a driver letter under XP?

There are cases where I would like to be able to access my USB stick from other machines. I can manually make it shareable but removing the stick releases the Share and the next time I insert the stick I have to manually reshare it again. Being the lazy person that I am I would like to be able to do the sharing config via a single mouse button click rather than multiples.

You can use something like this in a batch command from your usb drive:

Perfect!!

Thank you d4vr0s.

Glad to be of help.

@Ed_P

What mean for "EDS USB DRV", is it the Volumn LABEL ??

I have a stick and the volumn label is "ATOM", I trying to run NET SHARE "ATOM USB DRV"=%cd% by a CMD shell (under WinXP), the command prompt exit immedicately and nothing be shared.

@ED_P

As my stick assigned as I:, I just trying to use NET SHARE "ATOM USB DRV"=I:, Oh! I see, the Driver I: shared.

If I may, for the good tip by d4vr0s to work, the batch should be in ROOT of the USB stick.

Using:


Should allow to have it also anywhere on the stick. (and should also clear the doubt by ChinaDragon, the "EDS_USB_DRV" is the name of the share, it can be anything, unrelated to volume label; traditionally and for max compatibility I would avoid using spaces in it)

jaclaz

@jaclaz

Thank a lot, I get it, it is the share name of the share.

Excellent point jaclaz

However, my script will share the current directory just in case anyone doesn't want to share the entire drive.

While my 3 line script is doing exactly what I want and I am very happy with it, is there an option to enable sharing in a read only mode? I don't see it as an option in the results of a NET SHARE /? and it seems like it could be useful in certain situations.

Here's a thread on MSFN with a couple solutions:
http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t73388.html

It's weird that MS didn't include something that useful in the net share command.