i was thinking about searching AD and all the computers say listed in the container "computers" and/or other OU's containing computers. that would get me my computer list, then search for shares and test the share property for it's status. versus, say, reading from a text file that has 6000+ computers listed.

i could then write those results to a CSV text file to import into, say Excel.

if not AD then what about WMI or something?