Reauthenticate a Remote Connection via PowerShell Script

Question

I have a PowerShell v1 script that connects to a remote server via UNC path. After a reboot, authentication is needed because Windows apparently will not remember so the script cannot connect to the remote server

How is this situation handled programmatically from within a PowerShell script?

I need to

1) reauthenticate

2) connect to remote server via UNC path

Perhaps the "net" command???

How can I do this in my PowerShell script?

Get-ChildItem -Path "\\REMOTESERVER\Data\Files" -Filter "*.journal" | 
Where-Object { $_.Name -match 'Daily_Reviews\[\d{1,12}-\d{1,12}\].journal' } | 
Sort-Object -Property CreationTime | ForEach-Object 
{

    $sourcefile = $_.Name
    [...]


 }

Thanks

Yes, I just upgraded ps v2 and my script currently doesn't need any credentials - Only a problem after a reboot and then windows asks the script to authenticate with the remote server. I will need to pass in credentials when I authenticate - string variables are fine for this application — Slinky, Apr 17 '13 at 11:30
[possible duplicate](http://serverfault.com/questions/498858/reconnecting-to-a-mapped-drive-after-server-restart-from-within-powershell-scrip) — MDMoore313, Apr 17 '13 at 12:38
@Slinky Are you trying to connect to a File Share on the remote computer? What kind of "connection" are you using here? — Chris S, Apr 17 '13 at 12:58
@Chris S Yes, that's exactly right. I posted a snippet above — Slinky, Apr 18 '13 at 11:02
Who is the script running as? What do you mean "Windows wont remember" (works fine for me)? — Chris S, Apr 18 '13 at 13:03
Script is running as admin. The problem occurs when the server where the script resides (client), reboots. Afterwards, in the file explorer the mapped drive of the remote server has an "X" through it and we need to manually reauthenticate. Would love to handle the reauth from the script — Slinky, Apr 18 '13 at 19:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 11 '13 at 16:52

You can store credentials in your scripts. You can then use the PSCredential object with the New-PSDrive cmdlet to connect to the share. The PSDriveInfo object is then accessible to your script during the length of the session.

$username = 'domain\username'
$password = 'secret'

$password = $password | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force

$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($username, $password)

New-PSDrive -Name journals -PSProvider FileSystem -Root '\\remoteserver\data\files' -Credential $credential | ForEach-Object { Set-Location "$_`:" }

Get-ChildItem -Filter "*.journal"

Reauthenticate a Remote Connection via PowerShell Script

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