Search all domain computers for files... 1

[k3lvin]

I need to find out what computers have music stored on their C: drive on our domain. There must be a good way of doing this?

I found a pretty impressive guide for making a script to find files:

http://www.thenetflow.com/2009/search-computers-domain/

The problem with this method is it will just end up making hundreds of text files as all the computers will have .mp3, .wav, .wma etc files. I could arrange text files by size etc but still going to be painful.

Any input would be great! Thanks

 

[Diancecht]

But that script will search for a phrase. If you do that in the whole PC will last forever.

A dir /s *.mp3,*.wav > \\Shared folder\PCName.txt would do the trick

Cheers,
Dian

 

[k3lvin]

very nice I like your style i have it all working. I'm using:

execute.bat:
psexec @"\\Hostname\list.txt" -u domain\username -d -c "\\Hostname\search.bat"

search.bat:
cd c:\
dir /s *.mp3,*.wma *.wav > "\\Hostname\Results\%computername%.txt"

This outputs exactly what I want. The next thing I need to do is to male list.txt update with all the host names, this must be easier I'm going to look now ^^

Thanks for your help