share multiple folders with the same name condition - windows

Question

I need everyone's help to get back to the power shell, I currently have a directory tree with a lot of folders you can see the images I borrowed.
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I want to share folder "C and F" all directory tree at once with multiple users with view and edit permissions. hope everyone can help. I'm so stupid about this.

Answer 1

Hi khuchatvui and welcome to stackoverflow!
New-SmbShare can be used for creating shared folders.
If I understand correctly, you only want to share folders with a specific name that exist at multiple levels. SMB share names have to be unique, so that will provide a challenge if you want to have a specific sharename
You could partly automate this process by getting prompt for each folder name during the creation:
Solution 1 - prompt for name
$FoldersToShare = Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Tests\ -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq 'F' -or $_.Name -eq 'C' } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
foreach ($folder in $FoldersToShare) {
New-SmbShare -Name (Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the sharename for $($folder)") -Path $folder -ChangeAccess "domain\groupname"
}
If there is no pattern in the folders you want to share, but the names are unique, you could make a list of all the folders you want to share like this:
Solution 2 - create unique folder names
Get-ChildItem -Path c:\tests -Directory -Recurse | Select-Object Name, FullName | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -NoClobber -Delimiter ';' -Path C:\Tests\Stackoverflow\FoldersToShare.csv
Then, modify that list using a text editor or Excel to only contain the folders you want to share and use that to loop through New-SmbShare
Finally, use PowerShell to import the contents of the modified csv file and loop through the entries with New-SmbShare to create the shared folders
$FoldersToShare = Import-Csv -Path C:\Tests\Stackoverflow\FoldersToShare.csv -Delimiter ';'
foreach ($folder in $FoldersToShare) {
New-SmbShare -Name $folder.Name -Path $folder.FullName -ChangeAccess "domain\groupname"
}
For my solution, I created the folder structure from your image under C:\Tests
C:\Tests\
A
A1
C
F
A2
C
B
B1
C
B2
C