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I'm trying to find a way to retrieve the users mapped drive letter from a network drive. I've read a few posts here but they all seem to be around mapping/unmapping drives, whereas I simply need to know what drive the user has that network drive mapped to.

From a command prompt I use: Net Use s: for example will give me the name of the networked drive (\servershare\file\sharename\shared), however 

Net Use \\servershare\file\sharename\shared

just gives "The command completed successfully", where I need 'S:' returning.

How do I get the drive letter returned for a specific network drive?

BuZZarD73
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  • Read `net use /help`: When used `NET USE` without options, it lists the computer's connections. – JosefZ Feb 17 '16 at 10:57
  • net use | findstr /r "^.*[A-Z]:" | findstr "personnel" - this works and gives the the drive letter for the specific drive. – BuZZarD73 Feb 17 '16 at 13:08

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A batch file like this will work:

@FOR /F "tokens=2" %%D IN ('net use ^| find ":" ^| find /I "\\SERVER\SHARE"') DO @ECHO Drive letter is %%D

Notes:

  • Replace ECHO Drive letter is %%D with whatever code you want now that the drive letter is known, possibly a multi-line code block surrounded by ( and ). Replace \\SERVER\SHARE with the share you're looking for.
  • If there's no drive mapped to the share, the statement after DO will never execute. If there's more than one drive mapped to the share, it will execute once for each drive.
  • You could skip the first ^| find ":" pipe if you're sure there won't be any connections without a drive letter (e.g. created with net use \\SERVER\SHARE as opposed to net use S: \\SERVER\SHARE or net use * \\SERVER\SHARE).
  • You could skip the /I switch if you're sure there won't be any connections to the share using different character case.
  • The two @ characters prevent the commands from echoing on the console. An alternative is to begin the batch file with @ECHO OFF'.
  • If you're running this directly on the command line instead of from a batch file, replace the the two %%D with %D.
WinTakeAll
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  • Fabulous. Thank you. Works a treat. – BuZZarD73 Feb 22 '16 at 10:23
  • Just a thought, it maybe easier to change `SET "SHARE=\\servershare\file\sharename\shared"` to be `SET "SHARE=\\servershare\shared"` as your desktop admins would have to type out a long share name. Newer OS versions do indeed support "deep path" mapping, it maybe advisable to tidy it up a bit... Your milage may vary.. :) – Leptonator Mar 01 '16 at 05:59
  • Isn't the drive letter in `%%E`? Or alt least for me it is. I mounted a network drive `//my/webdav/share` as `Z:`. I get `//my/webdav/share` for `@echo %%D` and `Z` for `@echo %%E`. – Fr0zenFyr Jul 17 '19 at 10:20