It has happened with me that I was able to succesfully mount a network drive and can freely access it using Windows file-system Explorer. But my script was not able to access it. Digging a step further, i noticed that I could not even CD to that drive on command prompt. Hence i finally wrote this blog post for anyone running into the similar issue.
Question : How do I change to a mapped network drive at the command line?
Issue:
Say, you have a networked drive mapped to "U:\"
Now you want to go to that drive from a command line.
However, when you try you get an error suggesting
C:>u: The system cannot find the drive specified.
Solution:
There are two aspects to the solution:
1. The Syntax to use CD command on Windows may be the cause. Remember that for changing directories you should use cd /d U: rather than just U:
2. You should first start using the map drive on command prompt. Command used to do that is as follows:
net use u:
See attached screenshot showing the error as well as what happened after solution.
C:\Users\mfaiz\Downloads>net use p:
Local name p:
Remote name \\sxa.xxx.xxx.com\ap-xxx
Resource type Disk
The command completed successfully.
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