Finding the physical local path associated with a Share UNC folder

Question

Let's say I am Admin on a server named "Server1" and a share exists using the following UNC path

\\Server1\Share1

If I remote to Server 1 and log in as Admin, how do I find the physical drive location without scanning millions of folders given that a share folder could be defined ANYWHERE.

Answer 1

Open a command prompt window and type net share, then hit Enter.

Answer 2

In addition to using net share, you can also use wmic - this allows you to query remote systems (with /node:) and also get only those you're interested in, eg.
wmic /node:Server1 share where name="Share1" get name,path will list only shares named Share1.
You could also use pattern match: find only shares containing temp:
wmic share where 'name like ^"^%temp^%"' get name,path.
Please note those strange looking ^ are carets - cmd escape char - those are used to avoid cmd to expand env. variables. If used from within wmic, they are not needed.
Finally, you could execute this against many machines at once and save list as nicely formatted html table (among other formats):
wmic /node:server1,server2 /output:shares.html share get name,path /format:htable (you could also use a file to specify hosts with wmic /node: @file)

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