With Windows 8, why isn't a mapped drive available under an elevated cmd prompt but is under a regular cmd prompt? I can run a net use and get it to be available but I still find this odd.
-
Are you elevating the command prompt as the same user or are you using runas or alternate credentials?– MDMarraCommented Oct 8, 2012 at 22:22
-
Does the elevated user have the appropriate Share and NTFS permissions on the share?– joeqwertyCommented Oct 8, 2012 at 22:32
-
Ask Microsoft support.– John GardeniersCommented Oct 29, 2012 at 10:51
Add a comment
|
3 Answers
When using UAC with an administrative user, at login, Windows creates two tokens. One token (the elevated one) is unfiltered, and has the Administrators group enabled. The other token has the Administrators group (and some other details, like the Power Users group) filtered out.
Since these two tokens have separate security contexts, network connections in one aren't available in the other, even if it's really the same user.
So if you map a drive using Explorer, an elevated Command Prompt (or any other elevated process) won't be able to see it.
You can map the same network resource (using the same drive letter, even) in your elevated Command Prompt using the NET USE command. After that, any elevated process will also be able to see it.
-
1Is there a way to use Explorer AND have the drive be visible to all users?– JimDelCommented Oct 9, 2012 at 14:19
-
4
net use e: \\computerName\folder password /user:domain\username /p:yesis the commanded I ended up using that made it work. (Wheree:is the drive letter you are mapping,\\computername\folderis the path to be mapped, andpassword,domainandusernameare the normal credentials to log-in. Hope that helps someone. I followed on example from here pcsupport.about.com/od/commandlinereference/p/…– phyattCommented Mar 27, 2013 at 23:15 -
-
Safe/secure is a whole other topic. It should have the same behavior on 10 as it does on 8.– phyattCommented Jul 20, 2016 at 13:03
William's answer explains why this happens and provides one workaround. But I want to add there is actually a registry fix from Vista that works in Windows 7 to adjust this behavior. Just add this to your registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"EnableLinkedConnections"=dword:00000001
After a reboot mapped drives should be accessible through the elevated command prompt.
-
I had not known this was possible. Excellent. Technet has a reference - technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee844140(v=ws.10).aspx– WilliamCommented Oct 2, 2014 at 15:50
Because you're elevating the command prompt as a different user, and the mapped drive in question was mapped by the non-administrative user. Different users have different user settings, like printers, mapped network drives and so on.
answered Oct 8, 2012 at 23:37
