Vista Tutorial - how to map network drives on a remote computer ?

Hi everybody, i would like to map a new network drive on a remote
computer under an admin account, but i didn't find how i could do it.
Would you have an idea ?

thx
bye
Nico

Do you mean you want to map a network drive to a remote machine or you want
to map a network drive from a remote machine to a third machine
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"Nicopilami" wrote:

> Hi everybody, i would like to map a new network drive on a remote
> computer under an admin account, but i didn't find how i could do it.
> Would you have an idea ?
>
> thx
> bye
> Nico
>
>

On Aug 2, 12:20 am, Nicopilami <n.chauss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody, i would like to map a new network drive on a remote
> computer under an admin account, but i didn't find how i could do it.
> Would you have an idea ?
>
> thx
> bye
> Nico

I have something like this in my profile, which allows me to map a
network drive if it hasn't been done yet:

& {
if ( !( Test-Path Z: ) )
{
$net = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network

$password = Read-Host -AsSecureString "Password for mapped
drive"

$bstr =
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR( $password )
$password =
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto( $bstr )

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ZeroFreeBSTR( $bstr )

$net.MapNetworkDrive( "Z:", "\\<server>\<share>", "false",
"<username>", $password )
}
}

Maybe this will get you started. The Read-Host stuff is just so I
don't have to hard-code a password in my $profile.

Good luck.

Jeff

In message <1185988823.042667.253450@b79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
Nicopilami <n.chaussard@gmail.com> writes
>Hi everybody, i would like to map a new network drive on a remote
>computer under an admin account, but i didn't find how i could do it.
>Would you have an idea ?

net use x: \\foobar\share

Where \\foobar is the server and share is the share name. You can also
do this deeper, e.g.:

net use x:\\foobar\share\folder\folder2\folder3

Where \folder\folder2\folder3 are folders within the share.

you can use net use within a PowerShell script.

Thomas
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MVP - Admin Frameworks and Security

Mapped network drives are per user things, not per computer things. So, if
the intent is to make a mapped network drive available to anyone that logs
on to a computer, put the appropriate net use command into the All Users
startup folder so it will be executed at every logon.

\\computername\c$\documents and settings\All Users\Start
menu\programs\startup

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> Hi everybody, i would like to map a new network drive on a remote
> computer under an admin account, but i didn't find how i could do it.
> Would you have an idea ?
>
> thx
> bye
> Nico
>