Directory listings and csv

[Rowche Rumbler]

anyone know of an application which can do a search of files e.g. *.xyz files on all pcs available on a network and return back a txt file or csv with the details.

I need this in:

1. A scenario where all the shares are known via Active Directory, and access can be given based on admin priviliges

2. A scenario where the data may be on the individual drives but no shares are present but the admin account could try access via c$, d$, e$ etc.

I usually use WinDirLister ( http://www.seyso.com ) for this, but it can only do one share at a time and we need something that can do a whole network of 200 odd pcs.

[Pablo El Diablo]

employ a monkey and give him a weeks training , then tie a bunch of bananas at the desk of each PC, or get your workers to bring in bananas themselves. (i'm busy next week, but would offer my services)

[krayZpaving]

you mean *.mp3, *.mpg, *.mov, *.rm etc, don't you ;)

[Rowche Rumbler]

nah, its actually for cad files so we can ensure that people are not holding onto files that out of date on the network (they should be returned and popped into Oracle. Otherwise someone else starts working on the m and they are then out of date.

Best application I found was 'Network File Locator' - excellent - once you have an AD account with admin rights it finds everything for you, even if they're not shared.

[Rowche Rumbler]

excellent little app
http://www.purenetworking.net/Products/NetworkFileLocator/NetworkFileLocator.htm

[Ploppy]

Wrote something in Delphi to do similar about 18 months ago - this was for checking mpg and mp3 and such!! Had to interrogate the first few bytes of the file header tho for filetypes as the crafty buggers will rename them if they know they're being watched!!