I'm trying to discover and walk the shared folders and files of a computer on my network, let's call it ComputerA. If I know ComputerA is sharing a folder called Source, I can use
files, err := ioutil.ReadDir("\\\\ComputerA\\Source")
to get a list of all the files in Source. However, I can't do this to find Source (or any other shared folders)
files, err := ioutil.ReadDir("\\\\ComputerA")
It seems that ioutil can't list the root shared folders using a UNC path like this. I've looked over the stock packages rather quickly and nothing else jumps out at me as a way to do this.
It's not a permissions issue as far as I can tell. I can open up explorer and go straight to \\ComputerA and it'll work just fine.
How else can I discover the shared folders for a specific computer on my network?
That doesn't seem directly supported by Go libraries like ioutil or net or other packages.
Instead that would depend on the file system used, and would best use a system command (exec.Command().Output() ).
For instance, for Windows, net share (for local shares) or net view (for remote shares).