New-PSDrive permissions issue

Question

_{Thursday, March 9, 2017 5:24 PM}

I'm trying to run a script to map a remote directory and copy files from it using the follow two line script: 

New-PSDrive -Name J -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $remote -Credential $mycreds -Persist

Copy-Item -Path $remote -Destination $local -recurse

but i get the following exception

New-PSDrive : Access is deniedAt C:\bk1.ps1:8 char:5

•     New-PSDrive -Name J -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $remote -Credential $mycred ...

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (J:PSDriveInfo) [New-PSDrive], Win32Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotMapNetworkDrive,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewPSDriveCommand

On the remote machine, when I change the add the user that I am using for this to the Admin group it works correctly so between that and the Access Denied, its clearly a permissions issue. This user has full permissions on the target folder so I dont think its a folder or file level issue.

So my question is what permissions are needed for New-PSDrive?

All replies (1)

_{Thursday, March 9, 2017 6:54 PM}

There is no permission needed to use New-PsDrive.  The permissions are required by the target system share and file system.

You do not need to create a drive to copy a file from or to a remote system.  Just use the UNC path.

copy-item \remotepc\share\folder\file.ext c:\ -credential $cred

help copy-item -full

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