Existing SMB Connection Doesn’t Exist and Can’t Be Disconnected

[Kent West Participant Topics: 2 Replies: 14 Points: 14Rank: Member]

After deciding (perhaps wrongly) that “net use” is not the Powershell way, and that New-PSDrive is the non-preferred older way, I’m trying to use New-SmbMapping to map a drive, but it keeps failing with an existing remembered connection. So I’m doing experiments, as below, and am reduced to finding no explanation and having to ask here … “Why am I seeing the following behavior?!”

PowerShell

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> whoami mydomain\doug

1 2	PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> whoami mydomain\doug

In the above, you can see who I am as I run this experiment.

 

PowerShell

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-SmbConnection ServerName ShareName UserName Credential Dialect NumOpens ---------- --------- -------- ---------- ------- -------- filecab drawer1 MYDOMAIN\doug MYDOMAIN\doug 2.0.2 1

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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-SmbConnection   ServerName ShareName UserName       Credential      Dialect NumOpens ---------- --------- --------       ----------      ------- -------- filecab    drawer1   MYDOMAIN\doug  MYDOMAIN\doug   2.0.2   1

In the above, you can see there’s an existing connection to \\filecab\drawer1. I’m unsure how this connection is being established, although it’s possible I connected to this share at some time in the past, but I can find no evidence via the GUI of being connected.

 

PowerShell

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Test-Path "\\filecab\drawer1" True

1 2	PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Test-Path "\\filecab\drawer1" True

In the above you can see that, yep, there’s a SMB connection. But when I try to disconnect it…

 

PowerShell

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Remove-SmbMapping -RemotePath "\\filecab\drawer1" Remove-SmbMapping : No MSFT_SmbMapping objects found with property 'RemotePath' equal to '\\filecab\drawer1'. Verify the value of the property and retry. At line:1 char:1 + Remove-SmbMapping -RemotePath "\\filecab\drawer1" + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (\\filecab\drawer1:String) [Remove-SmbMapping], CimJobException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CmdletizationQuery_NotFound_RemotePath,Remove-SmbMapping

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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Remove-SmbMapping -RemotePath "\\filecab\drawer1" Remove-SmbMapping : No MSFT_SmbMapping objects found with property 'RemotePath' equal to '\\filecab\drawer1'. Verify the value of the property and retry. At line:1 char:1 + Remove-SmbMapping -RemotePath "\\filecab\drawer1" + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (\\filecab\drawer1:String) [Remove-SmbMapping], CimJobException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CmdletizationQuery_NotFound_RemotePath,Remove-SmbMapping

If I understand the above, it says the connection that exists doesn’t really exist.

I don’t understand. Hopefully someone here can enlighten me as to what I’m doing wrong. Thanks!

[ChrisM_Cologne69 Participant Topics: 0 Replies: 9 Points: 55Rank: Member]

The Powershell drives are here:

> Get-PSDrive

The UNC Drives are here:

> net use

 

I Think you have stored the Password in Windows:

The WindowsPasswords for UNC Path (and others) are here:

> rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr

 

 

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