Connecting to a network folder with username/password in Powershell
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...
At first glance one really wants to use New-PSDrive
supplying it credentials.
> 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
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).