Map a network drive to be used by a service

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Use this at your own risk. (I have tested it on XP and Server 2008 x64 R2)

For this hack you will need SysinternalsSuite by Mark Russinovich:

Step one:
Open an elevated cmd.exe prompt (Run as administrator)

Step two:
Elevate again to root using PSExec.exe:
Navigate to the folder containing SysinternalsSuite and execute the following command
psexec -i -s cmd.exe
you are now inside of a prompt that is nt authority\system and you can prove this by typing whoami. The -i is needed because drive mappings need to interact with the user

Step Three:
Create the persistent mapped drive as the SYSTEM account with the following command
net use z: \\servername\sharedfolder /persistent:yes

It’s that easy!

WARNING: You can only remove this mapping the same way you created it, from the SYSTEM account. If you need to remove it, follow steps 1 and 2 but change the command on step 3 to net use z: /delete.

NOTE: The newly created mapped drive will now appear for ALL users of this system but they will see it displayed as “Disconnected Network Drive (Z:)”. Do not let the name fool you. It may claim to be disconnected but it will work for everyone. That’s how you can tell this hack is not supported by M$.

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