I am working from Windows Server 2012 R2 from that server I am connected to a internal network, to which there are numerous computers that I have access to.
What I want to do is based on a specific users IP address in that network I want to pull 3 specific files out of that computer and make a copy to a specified location on my server. The files are always located in the same file path location for each individual computer and have the same file name.
From what I understand is that I should be able to write a script to perform this.
Copy-Item -ComputerName -Path filepath -Destination filepath destination
I don't want to use the computer name as it is more convoluted to find, it would be nice to enter in the IP of the address I am pulling the 3 files from.
Or if there is an easier-quicker way to copy the files from the PowerShell environment that would also be very helpful.
If you want to copy files from a remove machine to e.g. your own, you could run
Copy-Item -Path '\\<ip>\<file>' -Destination <local path>
E.g. I tried running
Copy-Item -Path '\\10.0.0.10\C$\winbox.exe' -Destination c:\tmp
between two domain joined computers, to which my user account has access to, works fine. 10.0.0.10 is the remote machine.
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I have business laptop which I can use off hours for entertainment.
Unfortunately most of my personal folders ale located on the server and that causes some issues.
My 'Documents' folder is located on:
\\<server name>\RedirectedFolders$\<username>\Documents
Which causes me problems with game that want to use 'My Games' folder located inside 'Documents' folder.
I tried to move 'My Games' to other folder located locally on disk C:, then make symbolic link with PowerShell using command:
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path "\\<servername>\RedirectedFolders$\<username>\Documents\My Games" -Target "C:\var\games\My Games"
Unfortunately it gives error:
New-Item: This operation is supported only when you are connected to the server.
Does anyone knows how to solve that?
EDIT. Forgot to mention, I'm connected via VPN to my company so when I type in explorer my online link to 'Documents' folder it opens it normally.
You reversed the arguments. You want the -Target to be the real directory path and the -Path to be the local directory link you access the target at. You can't create a symbolic link on a remote share to a local target.
Both methods work for me:
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Target \\server.domain.tld\share\SomeFolder -Path .\LocalSomeFolder
cmd /c mklink /D .\SomeLocalFolder \\server.domain.tld\share\SomeFolder
That said, this won't work like mapped drives and offline files. If you aren't online, you aren't accessing any of those folder's files. You can work around this by mapping the share to a network drive and ensuring offline file access is enabled for the mapping, then symlinking somewhere within the letter drive for the target rather than at the full network path.
This does bring its own share of issues, however, as "Offline Files" for network drives can be finicky.
Workaround
You can work around this gracefully by changing the location of your Documents library to %USERPROFILE%\Documents. Note that this won't migrate your existing files so it's up to you to make sure you can obtain the files before or after re-mapping the Documents library and populating your local Documents library with your expected files. Keep in mind some organizations will block changing some or all library locations so this might not be possible for you to achieve on a company-managed workstation.
Also note that this will no longer keep a remote copy of your local Documents library, which might interfere with any backup processes your organization has in place for your workstation. It becomes up to you to keep your Documents backed up in this case.
I have hundreds of computers on domain I am responsible for and I want to copy a file from a file server to their hard drives locally. If I script this to initiate the copy from my (separate) computer it works just fine via something like;
Copy-Item -LiteralPath \\FILESERVER01\Share\Files\Win7_64\File_to_copy.txt -Destination \\WORKSTATION01\c$\Users\USER\Desktop\ -Force }
However I'd like the script to initiate a copy from the file server to the workstation on the workstation via invoke-command so this isn't done on my machine using something (I assume is) like this:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName WORKSTATION01 -ScriptBlock { Copy-Item -LiteralPath \\FILESERVER01\Share\Files\Win7_64\File_to_copy.txt -Destination \\WORKSTATION01\c$\Users\USER\Desktop\ -Force }
But doing this consistently gives me the error citing the source as the issue - Cannot find path '\FILESERVER01\Share\Files\Win7_64\File_to_copy.txt' because it does not exist. I have access to this network shared path from all machines (via Domain Admin rights), so I believe this is something like a syntax error or problem with the way the UNC path is being resolved but despite reviewing several topics on this I just can't determine what I'm doing wrong with this since I'm using the same UNC paths in the same commands outside the invoke-command cmdlet (and from a PowerShell session on WORKSTATION01) with no issues.
I've tried reviewing and attempting solutions from this link, and also this link. But I can't tell if its a slightly different use case or if I just cant figure out how to adjust the syntax to make it work for me but the Cannot find path error persists
I've tried using New-PSDrive, prefixing the UNC path with "FileSystem:" and even taking the explicitly shared folders out entirely and using only the full path using administrative shares but I just seem to be missing something.
Can anyone shed some light on what I'm missing here?
I'm using Chef Kitchen to do a POC. We have a PowerShell script which goes to a network path, sorts the build based on date [Install shield installer], copies to the VM in a folder.
This script works correctly when I run inside the VM manually using Power Shell. When I run using Chef Kitchen I don't get any error, the recipe is run but only the first line.I can see the folder called Build created in the VM.
I did an experiment and added a second line to create another folder, it worked correctly. So the issue is the logic I used to copy and paste the build doesn't seem to work with Chef.
The first line creates a new folder, the second and third sets the source and destination path. The fourth line copies the build from the network path [Sort by date to get the latest] to the VM. And the last one is to rename.
And also is there an efficient way to copy a file from a network path [Sorting by date] to a VM using Chef?
powershell_script 'CopyBuild' do
code <<-EOH
New-Item -ItemType directory -Path C:\Build
$source = gci \\BuildPath\Build | ? { $_.PSIsContainer } | sort CreationTime -Desc | select -f 1
$destination = "C:\Build"
Copy-Item "\\BuildPath\Build\$source\*" $destination
Get-ChildItem $destination -r -i "*app1*.exe" | Rename-Item -NewName {"Test.exe"}
EOH
end
I also tried this, calling the PS script:
cookbook_file 'getbuild.ps1' do
mode '0755'
end
This looks like a windows remoting problem, your powershell needs the right configuration to be allowed to access network shares.
To verify if this is the case: replace the UNC path and just copy a local directory - if this works you can dig further to setup the requirements for windows remoting, see the following links for further help:
Safely running windows automation operations that fail inside winrm or powershell remoting (see chapter No access to network resources)
Knife issue 655
enabling and using credssp
To sum these links up: you can schedule a local task in your PS which does the copy to achieve this, or setup credssp.
I'm running the command which i have shown you the image and its giving that error
Please suggest me on this
Actually am trying to copy the build from local system to the remote server by using powershell scirpt
and i want to copy the files from on remote server to the other remote server by using local system
please provide me solutions for this and what are the requirements for this
You can use the copy-item
copy-item -path "Your\path\to\folderorfile" -destination "\\servernameorip\dest\location\"
if you have different credentials on the destination server, you can either trick windows by creating a local account using same name and password on your mcopy with different credentials
I have a file on my computer that I would like to remotely put onto another computer on the network. I've tried to use Copy-Item and do it while in a PS-Session but it doesn't work that way. Thanks!
Edit: Duplicate Question
copy-item "C:\Local Directory\filename.txt" "\\remotecomputer\C$\Remote Directory"
The most common prerequisite is that you are a member of the local Administrators group on the remote computer.