UNC path New-PSDrive script with -Credential not working

spiceuser-71fx7 · 2021-04-02T09:43:03.000Z

Hi techies

I’m new to PS script and need your urgent help.

My requirement is to copy the data files from my internal server to a remote third party file-share server on a daily basis.(site to site VPN is configured)

Please see the below script I used.

$Source = “\localserver\Y$\Test*”
$Dest = “\1.2.3.4\TestData\”
$Username = “remotedomain\test.user”
$Password = ConvertTo-SecureString ‘password’ -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential ($Username,$Password)
New-PSDrive -Name ‘W’ -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $Dest -Credential $Credential -Persist
Copy-Item -Path $Source -Destination "W:" -Recurse -passthru
Remove-PSDrive W

The issue I’m facing is, If I add the third party credentials to Windows “Credential manager” and then if I use the below, it will work.

New-PSDrive -Name ‘W’ -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $Dest -Persist

But I feel, that is not a best practice and need to pass the credential within New-PSDrive command.

Please help me to resolve the issue.

PS version : 4
OS: windows 2008R2 standard

adrian_ych · 2021-04-02T10:22:40.000Z

This is the old school mapped drive method to use a cred to access shares.

But with Domains, all you need to do is to ensure the logged in domain user (on client machine) have both rights to access the share and rights to read or write to the location on the file server (source) ?

spiceuser-71fx7 · 2021-04-02T10:37:04.000Z

Thanks adrian_ych for the quick response.

AD Trust is not configured and so both domains (local server & remote 3rd party file-share) are different.
From local server, we were able to access remote file share with their 3rd party credentials and do copy-paste-delete the files.

Neally · 2021-04-02T14:29:49.000Z

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Neally · 2021-04-02T14:38:32.000Z

spiceuser-71fx7:

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spiceuser-71fx7 · 2021-04-07T04:55:51.000Z

Changed from $Dest = “\1.2.3.4\TestData\ to $Dest = “\1.2.3.4\TestData worked…

Thank you all for the support