Question

In PowerShell, even if it’s possible to know if a drive is a network drive: see In PowerShell, how can I determine if the current drive is a networked drive or not?

When I try to get the ‘root’ of the drive, I get back the drive letter.

The setup: 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. 

Get-PSDrive tells us that the Root is H:

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

and using system.io.driveinfo does not give us a complete answer:

PS:13 H:\ >$x = new-object system.io.driveinfo('h:\') PS:14 H:\ >$x.DriveType Network PS:15 H:\ >$x.RootDirectory  Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name ----                -------------     ------ ---- d----        29/09/2008     16:45            h:\ 

Any idea of how to get that info?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try WMI:

Get-WMIObject -query 'Select ProviderName From Win32_LogicalDisk Where DeviceID='H:''