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Deepanshu Kalra
Deepanshu Kalra

Reputation: 469

Copy-Item throws AccessDenied exception

I am trying to copy files from a remote server to my base machine using powershell. This throws an 'Access Denied' exception even though the drives get mapped: 

New-PSDrive -Name source -PSProvider FileSystem -Root "\\SERVERNAME1\D$\Temp\Folder" ;
New-PSDrive -Name target -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $destinationRemotePath ;
Copy-Item -Path  source:\$($file).zip -Destination target: -Verbose -ErrorAction Stop -Force ;

Approach 2

I am mapping the source drive and using PsSession for target drive but I get

Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'source' does not exist. + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (source:String) [Copy-Item], DriveNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DriveNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand

Following is the code being used:

$Username = "UserName";
$Password = ConvertTo-SecureString "Password" -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($Username, $Password)
$session = new-pssession -computername 'TargetServerName' -credential $cred 
New-PSDrive -Name source -PSProvider FileSystem -Root "\\SERVERNAME1\D$\Temp\Folder" ;
Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock { Copy-Item -Path  $($args[0]) -Destination $($args[1]) -Verbose -ErrorAction Stop } -ArgumentList source:\$($file).zip,'D:\Folder' ;

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3053

Answers (1)

restless1987
restless1987

Reputation: 1598

There are some issues on that second example:

  1. The PSSession has a different scode, it does not know about your PSDrive.

  2. PSSessions do not support authentication to network location like you might be used to from RDP-Sessions. See CredSSP or ' PSSession double hop'

Approach 1 looks like you have no access to that share you want to use. You can specify credentials via -Credential parameter at New-PSDrive. Can you Get-Childitem on Source: and Target:?

Upvotes: 0

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