Connecting to a network folder with username password in Powershell

Question

I often access shared network folders in Powershell to grab files etc  But if the share requires a username password  Powershell does not prompt me for these  unlike Windows Explorer  If I connect to the folder first in Windows Explorer  Powershell will then allow me to connect    How can I authenticate myself in Powershell

User · Answer

This is not a PowerShell-specific answer, but you could authenticate against the share using "NET USE" first:

net use \\server\share /user:<domain\username> <password>

And then do whatever you need to do in PowerShell...

User · Answer

At first glance one really wants to use New-PSDrive supplying it credentials     gt  New-PSDrive -Name P -PSProvider FileSystem -Root   server share -Credential domain user   Fails   New-PSDrive   Cannot retrieve the dynamic parameters for the cmdlet  Dynamic parameters for NewDrive cannot be retrieved for the  FileSystem  provider  The provider does not support the use of credentials  Please perform the operation again without specifying credentials   The documentation states that you can provide a PSCredential object but if you look closer the cmdlet does not support this yet  Maybe in the next version I guess    Therefore you can either use net use or the WScript Network object  calling the MapNetworkDrive function    net   new-object -ComObject WScript Network  net MapNetworkDrive  u       server share    false   domain user    password       Edit for New-PSDrive in PowerShell 3 0  Apparently with newer versions of PowerShell  the New-PSDrive cmdlet works to map network shares with credentials   New-PSDrive -Name P -PSProvider FileSystem -Root   Server01 Public -Credential user domain -Persist

User · Answer

This is not a PowerShell-specific answer, but you could authenticate against the share using "NET USE" first:

net use \\server\share /user:<domain\username> <password>

And then do whatever you need to do in PowerShell...

User · Answer

At first glance one really wants to use New-PSDrive supplying it credentials     gt  New-PSDrive -Name P -PSProvider FileSystem -Root   server share -Credential domain user   Fails   New-PSDrive   Cannot retrieve the dynamic parameters for the cmdlet  Dynamic parameters for NewDrive cannot be retrieved for the  FileSystem  provider  The provider does not support the use of credentials  Please perform the operation again without specifying credentials   The documentation states that you can provide a PSCredential object but if you look closer the cmdlet does not support this yet  Maybe in the next version I guess    Therefore you can either use net use or the WScript Network object  calling the MapNetworkDrive function    net   new-object -ComObject WScript Network  net MapNetworkDrive  u       server share    false   domain user    password       Edit for New-PSDrive in PowerShell 3 0  Apparently with newer versions of PowerShell  the New-PSDrive cmdlet works to map network shares with credentials   New-PSDrive -Name P -PSProvider FileSystem -Root   Server01 Public -Credential user domain -Persist

User · Answer

This is not a PowerShell-specific answer, but you could authenticate against the share using "NET USE" first:

net use \\server\share /user:<domain\username> <password>

And then do whatever you need to do in PowerShell...

User · Answer

At first glance one really wants to use New-PSDrive supplying it credentials     gt  New-PSDrive -Name P -PSProvider FileSystem -Root   server share -Credential domain user   Fails   New-PSDrive   Cannot retrieve the dynamic parameters for the cmdlet  Dynamic parameters for NewDrive cannot be retrieved for the  FileSystem  provider  The provider does not support the use of credentials  Please perform the operation again without specifying credentials   The documentation states that you can provide a PSCredential object but if you look closer the cmdlet does not support this yet  Maybe in the next version I guess    Therefore you can either use net use or the WScript Network object  calling the MapNetworkDrive function    net   new-object -ComObject WScript Network  net MapNetworkDrive  u       server share    false   domain user    password       Edit for New-PSDrive in PowerShell 3 0  Apparently with newer versions of PowerShell  the New-PSDrive cmdlet works to map network shares with credentials   New-PSDrive -Name P -PSProvider FileSystem -Root   Server01 Public -Credential user domain -Persist

User · Answer

At first glance one really wants to use New-PSDrive supplying it credentials     gt  New-PSDrive -Name P -PSProvider FileSystem -Root   server share -Credential domain user   Fails   New-PSDrive   Cannot retrieve the dynamic parameters for the cmdlet  Dynamic parameters for NewDrive cannot be retrieved for the  FileSystem  provider  The provider does not support the use of credentials  Please perform the operation again without specifying credentials   The documentation states that you can provide a PSCredential object but if you look closer the cmdlet does not support this yet  Maybe in the next version I guess    Therefore you can either use net use or the WScript Network object  calling the MapNetworkDrive function    net   new-object -ComObject WScript Network  net MapNetworkDrive  u       server share    false   domain user    password       Edit for New-PSDrive in PowerShell 3 0  Apparently with newer versions of PowerShell  the New-PSDrive cmdlet works to map network shares with credentials   New-PSDrive -Name P -PSProvider FileSystem -Root   Server01 Public -Credential user domain -Persist

User · Answer

PowerShell 3 supports this out of the box now  If you re stuck on PowerShell 2  you basically have to use the legacy net use command  as suggested earlier

User · Answer

This is not a PowerShell-specific answer, but you could authenticate against the share using "NET USE" first:

net use \\server\share /user:<domain\username> <password>

And then do whatever you need to do in PowerShell...

User · Answer

PowerShell 3 supports this out of the box now  If you re stuck on PowerShell 2  you basically have to use the legacy net use command  as suggested earlier

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