New-PSDrive error folder not found

[Greg Dent Participant Topics: 9 Replies: 20 Points: 11Rank: Member]

Hi all. I’m trying to use New-PSDrive to map a network location to the powershell session, all part of some server build scripts. However, I’ve had to revert back to ‘net use’ as New-PSDrive seems a little broken to me – or rather, the way it works is different to what is written in the TechNet article on it (or I’m missing something that isnt mentioned on there).

Here’s my command:

$AdminUser = "domain\user"
$AdminPass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'p4ssw0rd' -AsPlainText -Force
$Cred = New-Object pscredential -ArgumentList $AdminUser,$AdminPass
New-PSDrive -Name "scripts" -PSProvider "FileSystem" -Root "\\server\share$" -Credential $Cred

 

This gives me an error which I dont understand:

The specified root "\\server\share$" either does not exist, or it is not a folder.

This seems like a nonsense error to me, since I can browse to that folder from the very same server I am running this command from, and even net use works fine with that folder. I have had to switch to net use, but would ideally prefer to use PS commands.

Any ideas?

[grokkit Senior Moderator Topics: 10 Replies: 168 Points: 899Rank: Major Contributor]

From your working server, as the user account that executes the script, what happens when you ping the target server?

What happens if you Get-ChildItem "\\server\share$" ?

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