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Alan R
Alan R

Reputation: 1

Set -Clipboard -path on remote connected computer

I am typing the following command in Windows Powershell into a remote connected computer:

(code noted below)

I am getting the error message in windows Powershell : Set-Clipboard : Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'Q' does not exist. HOWEVER, if I do the same when directly connected than the code works fine. Could you please advise. Thanks

Set-Clipboard -Path "Q:\Myname X\2019\07- Mon\City Name Job Nbr   XXX 00-99"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 85

Answers (1)

Rich Moss
Rich Moss

Reputation: 2384

I'm speculating a bit because you didn't provide the command line you used to connect to the remote machine. Probably the Q: drive represents a mapped network drive (unless you have a lot of USB/SATA drives connnected). You can confirm by running net use at a command prompt to show all the mapped drives and Remote/UNC paths. It should look like this

Status       Local     Remote                    Network
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Connected    Q:        \\server\share\           Microsoft Windows Network

You were probably remotely connected with the same account you use to log in, but it doesn't map all the drives when you are using a remote session. You can try to either map the drive in the remote session with net use q: \\server\share or you can try to use the full UNC path in your command line: 

Set-Clipboard -Path "\\server\share\Myname X\2019\07- Mon\City Name Job Nbr   XXX 00-99"

Where Server and Share are the values you got from the net use Remote column.

Upvotes: 1

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