Microsoft® PowerShell, VBScript and JScript® Bible

Chapter 10. Managing Drives and Printers with VBScript and JScript

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Working with disk drives

• Examining disk drives

• Mapping network drives

• Setting default printers

• Adding and removing printer connections

This chapter completes our look at managing the file system and then moves on to examine managing network resources. You learn how to work with drives and how to examine drive properties. You also learn how to map network drives and configure network printer connections.

Managing Drives

Two different ways of working with drives are available. You can work with a specific drive, such as the C: drive, or you can work with drive collections. Drive collections are containers for all of the local and network drives on a particular system.

Obtaining Drive Information

Most functions that work with drives allow you to reference drive paths in any of these ways:

• By drive letter, such as C or D

• By drive path, such as C:\ or D:\

• By network share path, such as \\PLUTO\MYSHARE or \\SATURN\DATA

Most network drives have a drive designator associated with them as well as a path. For example, the network drive \\PLUTO\MYSHARE may be mapped on the system as the H: drive. You can obtain a drive designator for a network drive using the GetDriveName method of FileSystemObject. This method requires a drive path. The following are a few examples of how it is used:

VBScript

Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
drv = fs.GetDriveName ("\\PLUTO\DATA")
WScript.Echo drv

JScript fs = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); ...