Script to map network drive form admin machine to curriculum share

[northeast_technician]

looking at running a script to add a network share on the admin machines in school to a share on the curriculum server. Tried

net use z: \\networkshare /USER:domain\username password /PERSISTENT:NO

but doesnt seam to work

[deebee]

Does manually mapping the drive from 'Map network drive' in explorer work?

 

Are these all on the same domain or is there a separate Admin and Curric domain set up?

[JackCPickup]

Does the authenticating account have appropriate permissions?

 

Can you browse to the share with the authenticating account?

 

Flat network? Multiple domains?

[northeast_technician]

yes set the account with admin permissions, it does connect when adding manually but the admin machine policy disconnects on startup so i want the script to re run on login

they are 2 separate domains admin / curric

[deebee]

Does the script work if you manually double click on it on the client? Is it in the 'logon' scripts and not 'startup'? Is the script stored locally or on a remote share?

 

Is there a domain trust in place? Could you use GPP (group policy preferences) to map the drive instead?

[northeast_technician]

i cant as i am mapping from a none domain machine so dont have control over the gpp

[deebee]

i cant as i am mapping from a none domain machine so dont have control over the gpp

OK GPP is out

 

Either way the script should be able to do the trick. Does it work when double clicking it on the client?

[northeast_technician]

No that’s where I was wondering if I had done something wrong

[deebee]

No that’s where I was wondering if I had done something wrong

 

Well I don't think I see anything wrong with your command line - does the command work if you paste it into a command prompt directly, outside the script?

[northeast_technician]

Well I don't think I see anything wrong with your command line - does the command work if you paste it into a command prompt directly, outside the script?

 

yes it does, just tried that but doesnt from script

[JackCPickup]

If you put a PAUSE in the script below the command what do you get as an error?

[deebee]

Are you using a trailing \ on the share?

 

net use z: \\server\share\ /USER:domain\user PASSWORD

 

If so try without the \ - \\server\share - seems silly but worth trying if you have one. I've seen that cause issues before I believe.

[Katy]

I've found with scripts that work in command line but not when clicked/ran - it still thinks the drive is mapped (but errors when you try to change to it, and doesn't show in explorer), so you have to do a "net use z: /del" before mapping it again in the script.

[Knil92]

you could try;

 

net use z: "\ "\\networkshare" /USER:domain\username password /PERSISTENT:NO

 

I had an issue making a schedule task from command line before and it was to do with the file path and adding in "" before the file path and a " at the end resolved it.

 

EDIT: its not letting me add in the "\ " without a space so take the space out

 

 

Edited February 8, 2018 by Knil92