Powershell mystery

Pash

I had never tried this previously and hence why I only just noticed it. I am far from completely competent with powershell yet, still picking up lot's.

Scenario:-

I have a vmware network at work, x2 2003 servers, both on same subnet/network.

The server I am running this script from isn't assigned to any domain yet and just sit's in a workgroup. The other server is a AD DC 2003.

The script:-

$a = Get-Content "C:\Scripts\pclist.txt"

foreach ($i in $a)
{

remove-item \\$i\C$\Scripts\remove -recurse

}

The pclist contains the computer name of both servers.

I ran the script expecting it not to work on the AD DC 2003 server, but it did. My thoughts were:-

a) The script surely shouldn't be able to be run this remove-item cmdlet on a remote server, especially when there are no matching windows user authentication to perform this task.

b) I havent tried this on other platforms yet but I am completely clueless.

Anyone that can explain?

Cheers,

HeroPsycho

Are you logged in with a local user account that has a mirrored local user account on the remote machines?

Pash

HeroPsycho wrote:

Are you logged in with a local user account that has a mirrored local user account on the remote machines?

Hi Hero!

No that wasn't the case. I thought of that at the start.

BUT I do know why it worked. Windows had cached sharepath credentials for \\remotepcname\c$ previously, hence why I was allowed to connect to an administrative share and remove a folder.

Silly me.

Cheers,

Pash

#file required in location for Get-Content

$a = Get-Content 'C:\Scripts\pclist.txt'

 

$b = "Scripts\remove"

$c = "c$"

 

foreach ($i in $a)

{

 

if (Test-Path \\$i\$c\$b)

{

    remove-item \\$i\$c\$b -recurse -Force -confirm

        "$b successfuly removed from: $i"

}

else

{

    "$b does not exist on $i"

}

 

}

I modified this script to make it useful to remove folders or files on multiple pc's with a confirmation required before each removal. I don't know if anyone else will have use for it but please go ahead....

Pash

Please elaborate dude, I mean I still wan't to display to console window if the if statement isnt met it has to meet something right?

HeroPsycho

I'm confused what you're asking (and if you're asking yourself a question....)

royal

HeroPsycho wrote: »

I'm confused what you're asking (and if you're asking yourself a question....)

I believe he was replying to a post I made earlier in which I was wrong since I didn't scroll through all the code and realized that so I deleted my post.

Pash

royal wrote: »

I believe he was replying to a post I made earlier in which I was wrong since I didn't scroll through all the code and realized that so I deleted my post.

This would be it