I recently had to deploy SMB scanning to about 20 workstations and decided to write a batch file to make my life easier.

In an ongoing effort to make all of your lives easier as well, I decided to post it here.

A little bit about what it does:

1. Creates a user 'Scanner' with a password of 'Kyocera99'
2. Creates a folder on all user's desktop and shares it.
3. Grants Full Access to the Folder
4. Creates File Sharing Exception in XP Firewall

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rem * SET UP A USER ACCOUNT FOR THE SCANNER TO USE *
rem * THE USERNAME HERE IS 'Scanner' and the Password is 'Kyocera99' *
rem * THE SCAN PATH IS "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Scans\" *
rem * CHANGE THEM TO WHATEVER YOU WANT *
rem
net user Scanner Kyocera99 /ADD /EXPIRES:NEVER /COMMENT:"Kyocera Copier User Account for Scanning"
rem
rem * SET UP A FOLDER TO SCAN TO *
rem
md "%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\Scans"
rem
rem * SHARE THE FOLDER - IF IT'S A SERVER GRANT FULL ACCESS TO USER *
rem
net share Scans="%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\Scans" /grant:Scanner,FULL
rem
net share Scans="%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\Scans"
rem
rem * AN ERROR HERE IS NORMAL *
rem
rem * MAKE SURE WINDOWS FIREWALL HAS AN EXCEPTION FOR FILE AND PRINTER SHARING *
rem
netsh firewall set service type=FILEANDPRINT mode=ENABLE
rem
rem * FINISHED *
pause

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dude, you're awesome

thank you so much. i can't wait to try it.

Another tip for using this - slip it into the login script for their users (if they use one) a couple of days before you go out and all the workstations will be ready to go - just add them into the address book.