[SOLVED] Powershell script to map drives, persistent connection not working

Powershell script to map drives, persistent connection not working

The code below allows me to map the appropriate network drives as and when needed.

The problem I have is when I restart the computer, the mapped drives are lost. So I need to run the script again.

$Net = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network  
$Rename = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application

#### # Map the network drives
$Net.MapNetworkDrive("A:", '\\192.168.1.10\NAS1\Automate')
$Net.MapNetworkDrive("G:", '\\10.0.0.1\NAS1\VidePro')  

timeout 4

#### # Rename everything
Write-Host "Naming all mapped driver correctly"
$rename.NameSpace("A:\").Self.Name = 'AutoMate 1Gbit' 
$rename.NameSpace("G:\").Self.Name = 'VidPro 10Gbit'

I have tried the following pieces of code unfortunately it does not work:

$Net.MapNetworkDrive("A:", '\\192.168.1.10\NAS1\Automate' -Persist)
$Net.MapNetworkDrive("A:", '\\192.168.1.10\NAS1\Automate' -Persistant)
$Net.MapNetworkDrive("A:", '\\192.168.1.10\NAS1\Automate', -Persist)
$Net.MapNetworkDrive("A:", '\\192.168.1.10\NAS1\Automate' '-Persist'

I am not sure what I am missing here.

Just as a side note. There are no credentials in the above script as I usually log in and to the credentials first and then run the script. Just an extra security measure on my behalf.

Thank you.

Solution

This should do the trick:

$NPSDArgs = @{Name       = "A" 
              PSProvider = "FileSystem"
              root       = "\\192.168.1.10\NAS1\Automate" 
              Persist    = $True
             }

New-PSDrive @NPSDargs

To remove the drive:

Remove-PSDrive -Name "A"

HTH