Enumerate File Server Shares and Associated Number of Connections

Please help!
My scenario: I have a mixed Windows 2003 & 2008 file server estate and i need to establish what shares are published on each server and the associated number of active connections, just like what the "Shares" section in computer management
gives me.
I'd like to do this via some sort of script so I can then have a choice of what to do with the output, the interface won't give me the flexibility I need. There seems to be a lot of scripts & help out there but nothing seems to quite give me what
I need e.g. I can enumerate the number of shares in a variety of ways but then can't figure out what i need to do to report the number of open connections, I've also found ways to report on the number of open sessions but then can't figure out how to get more
granularity on individual shares. Driving me a bit crazy right now as I'm probably near but due to my aged scripting abilities I just can't figure it out
Any ideas? BTW PowerShell isn't installed on my Windows 2003 estate and it isn't practical to deploy/install it.
Thanks in advance.

Simple one-stop shopping for share info is here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj635704.aspx
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