Calling Get-Smbshare in C#

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I am currently trying to use c# to call the Get-SMBShare which can be used in Powershell... however, it's throwing this error:

Exception:Caught: "The term 'Get-SMBShare' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again." (System.Management.Automation.CommandNotFoundException) A System.Management.Automation.CommandNotFoundException was caught: "The term 'Get-SMBShare' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again." Time: 25/10/2015 19:17:59 Thread:Pipeline Execution Thread[6028]

My first language is PowerShell, so I'm trying to translate a GUI tool from PowerShell to C#, and the tool uses hundreds of PS commands - is there something I should be calling? I'm testing things out in console here.

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Collections.ObjectModel; using System.Management.Automation; using System.Management.Automation.Runspaces; using System.Threading.Tasks; namespace ConsoleApplication2 { class Program { private static void GetShareNames() { // Call the PowerShell.Create() method to create an // empty pipeline. PowerShell ps = PowerShell.Create(); ps.AddCommand("Get-SmbShare"); Console.WriteLine("Name Path"); Console.WriteLine("----------------------------"); // Call the PowerShell.Invoke() method to run the // commands of the pipeline. foreach (PSObject result in ps.Invoke()) { Console.WriteLine( "{0,-24}{1}", result.Members["Name"].Value, result.Members["Path"].Value); } // End foreach. Console.ReadLine(); } // End Main. static void Main(string[] args) { GetShareNames(); } } }

Keith Hill · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-26 20:15:00Z

You need to import the module first. Stick in this line before you try to execute the Get-SmbShare command:

ps.AddCommand("Import-Module").AddArgument("SmbShare"); ps.Invoke(); ps.Commands.Clear(); ps.AddCommand("Get-SmbShare");

Another way is to initialize the runspace with the SmbShare module pre-loaded e.g.:

InitialSessionState initial = InitialSessionState.CreateDefault(); initial.ImportPSModule(new[] {"SmbShare"} ); Runspace runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(initial); runspace.Open(); PowerShell ps = PowerShell.Create(); ps.Runspace = runspace;

Hi Keith, I have looked into this and it does not work. Could you please verify that this works for you?
I tested the first example and it does work after fixing one - a bone-headed mistake (don't mix in arg with command name) and two - fixing a more subtle issue. AFAICT the SmbShare module only works in a 64-bit process so if your C# project is configured "prefer 32-bit", you need to uncheck that.
Thanks for this - this is my first c# project so I appreciate the help!

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