Retrieve the connections established from the SMB client to any SMB servers.
Users can connect to an SMB share using credentials different than the associated logon credentials so that there will be a connection listed per share per user logon per credential used.
Syntax
Get-SmbConnection [[-ServerName] String[]] [[-UserName] String[]] [-CimSession CimSession[]]
[-SmbInstance {Default | CSV}] [-ThrottleLimit Int32] [CommonParameters]
Key
-CimSession [CimSession[]]
Run the cmdlet in a remote session or on a remote computer.
Enter a computer name or a session object, such as the output of a New-CimSession or Get-CimSession cmdlet.
The default is the current session on the local computer.
-ServerName
Specifies that the connections made to the server are enumerated.
-SmbInstance
Specifies the input to this cmdlet. You can use this parameter, or you can pipe the input to this cmdlet.
-ThrottleLimit [Int32]
The maximum number of concurrent operations that can be established to run the cmdlet.
If this parameter is omitted or a value of 0 is entered, then PowerShell will calculate an optimum throttle limit
for the cmdlet based on the number of CIM cmdlets that are running on the computer. The throttle limit applies
only to the current cmdlet, not to the session or to the computer.
-UserName
Specifies that the connections made by the user are enumerated.
Get connections from an SMB client to SMB servers:
PS C:\> Get-SmbConnection
ServerName ShareName UserName Credential Dialect NumOpens
---------- --------- -------- ---------- ------- --------
ServerFS1 work windevclusterdom\pc64$ windevclusterdom\pc64$ 3.0.2 1
ServerFS1 VMS5 NT VIRTUAL MACHI.. windevclusterdom\pc89$ 3.1.1 3
ServerFS NETLOGON windevclusterdom\pc64$ windevclusterdom\pc64$ 3.0.2 1
ServerFS VMS1 windevclusterdom\user64 windevclusterdom\user64 3.0.2 5
ServerSO print$ windevclusterdom\user64 windevclusterdom\user64 3.0.2 1
Get connections from an SMB server:
PS C:\> Get-SmbConnection -ServerName Server64 | Select-Object -Property *
“Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade” ~ Donna Haraway
New-SmbMapping - Create a mapping to an SMB share.
New-PSDrive - Create a mapped network drive (Windows 7).
Get-CimInstance -class Win32_Share - List the available remote shares.
Get-SmbOpenFile - Information about files that are open on behalf of SMB server clients.
Remove-SmbMapping - Remove an SMB Mapping.
Windows cmd command: NET VIEW - list remote shares.