Map a network drive to be used by a service

Question

Suppose some Windows service uses code that wants mapped network drives and no UNC paths. How can I make the drive mapping available to the service\'s session when the servi

Answer 1

I found a solution that is similar to the one with psexec but works without additional tools and survives a reboot.

Just add a sheduled task, insert "system" in the "run as" field and point the task to a batch file with the simple command

net use z: \servername\sharedfolder /persistent:yes

Then select "run at system startup" (or similar, I do not have an English version) and you are done.