Can't copy files to UNC Destinations if BAT file is called via scheduled task

Question

I have a bat file copying files from current machine to mapped network drive (one line, xcopy command).

It works when I RDP to server. However, when I run as a schedule

Answer 1

I had similar issue where I wanted to copy file(s) from a server to hundreds of other servers without mapping a remote drive to my local PC. I didn't have enough drive letters to map hundreds of remote machines to my local PC! I couldn't just map the remote drive and copy.

I thought I could use copy, xcopy, or robocopy, and specify my creds to the copy command. But none of the copy commands had any options to provide credentials to remote system.

Thanks to the post above, I was able to create a small batch file where I just loop through my hosts, and keep re-using just one drive mapping for all my hosts.

Here is my batch file...

echo @off
for /F %%j in (pchostslist1.txt) do (
  net use z:\\%%j\c$ /user:domain\myusername mypassword
  mkdir \\%%j\c$\tmp\mynewdir
  xcopy c:\anyfile.txt \\%%j\c$\tmp\mynewdir
  net use z: /delete
)