PowerShell Test-Path returns False when testing a network share

Question

The user has appropriate permissions to read the share, and the share maps properly. This issue seems to happen only in PowerShell v2.0.

If I remove all mapped drive

Answer 1

For me the only way to fix it was to use the full UNC, rather than the share name.

So instead of \\server\share I used \\server\c$\sharedir.

Another issue I ran into was when using Import-Module sqlps, I had to make sure to CD back into the file system and then the PowerShell commands worked normally.