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Okrx
Okrx

Reputation: 119

Access is denied - confusion over COPY-ITEM

I am trying to copy some files from my server to a workstation. If I change $Foldername to C:\the process works fine. However if I leave the code the way it is, i.e. If I decide to copy files to C:\Program Files\Interrogator.

I get this error: 

Copy-Item : Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Interrogator\Setup Instructions.txt' is denied.
At C:\Users\coduy\Desktop\Copy2Test.ps1:20 char:10
+ Copy-Item <<<<  -Path \\10.10.0.10\DeploymentShare\Applications\JDE-Interrogator\* -Destination $Foldername
    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (\\10.10.0.10\De...nstructions.txt:FileInfo) [Copy-Item], Unauthorized
   AccessException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CopyFileInfoItemUnauthorizedAccessError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand

I can see that the access is denied but why? I have not shared any of the folders and that should not make any difference if I decide to copy to C:\ or C:\Program Files 

 $net = New-Object -comobject Wscript.Network
    $net.MapNetworkDrive("Z:","\\10.13.0.10\DeploymentShare\Applications\JDE Interrogator",0,"mydomain\coduy","P0kroy$")

    $uncServer = "\\10.10.0.10\"
    $uncFullPath = "\\10.13.0.10\DeploymentShare\Applications\JDE Interrogator"
    $username = "coduy"
    $password = "password"
    $Foldername="C:\Program Files\Interrogator"


    net use $uncServer $password /USER:$username
    try
    {

    mkdir C:\'Program Files'\Interrogator
    Copy-Item -Path \\10.10.0.10\DeploymentShare\Applications\JDE-Interrogator\* -Destination $Foldername


    }
    finally {
    net use $uncServer /delete
    }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 17796

Answers (1)

Okrx
Okrx

Reputation: 119

Found out that other user has similar issue and this seems to be a reasonable answer:

Windows Vista and above default to not allowing non-administrative users to write to the `%PROGRAMFILES% folder. This means that you're not going to be allowed to copy the files there; you're also not going to be able to save them after doing your find/replace operation.

You can write them to your user documents folder (%USERPROFILE%\Documents) folder instead, if that will work for you.

share|edit answered Dec 23 '12 at 6:32

Ken White 74.5k770140

Upvotes: 1

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