How can I find the names of all shares on a LAN without knowing any machine names using C#?

Question

How can I find all the shares on a LAN without knowing any machine names or domain names using C#? I've found all kinds of solutions if you know the machine name but that isn't going to be available to me. I'm looking to obtain something similar to whats below:

//joescomp/public
//beth/apps
//server/pdf
//server/public

So it will show the name of the machine and whats shared on it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can do that in fairly simple way.

• Get you current IP Address and Subnet network
• Scan the whole subnet, check each IP for shares it has. If you need you can convert IP to machine name but you can just work with ip's as well (for purpose of showing you can do reverse dns checking on those IP's)
• That's it :-)