Question

I need to know, from within Powershell, if the current drive is a mapped drive or not.

Unfortunately, Get-PSDrive is not working ‘as expected’:

PS:24 H:\temp >get-psdrive  h  Name       Provider      Root      CurrentLocation ----       --------      ----      --------------- H          FileSystem    H:\          temp 

but in MS-Dos ‘net use’ shows that H: is really a mapped network drive:

New connections will be remembered.  Status       Local     Remote                    Network ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK           H:        \\spma1fp1\JARAVJ$        Microsoft Windows Network  The command completed successfully. 

What I want to do is to get the root of the drive and show it in the prompt (see: Customizing PowerShell Prompt – Equivalent to CMD's $M$P$_$+$G?)

Answer 1

Use the .NET framework:

PS H:\> $x = new-object system.io.driveinfo('h:\') PS H:\> $x.drivetype Network