How do i reference redirected host drives in a remote desktop session

Question

When I remote desktop into a server, for example, local drives and mapped network drives from my host computer appear as ON . I can access these drives using Windows Explorer, but I also need to refer to them from a command window (cmd.exe).

For example, I need to run xcopy < /s /d, so I would like to open a command shell from my remote desktop session and run the xcopy command.

Can I do that? If so, how?

Solution

Sure, just use the mapping under net use.

They won't have a drive letter assigned, just a mapping. Most of the time it will be listed as something like \\TSCLIENT\C or similar.

Then just run the command with the path being something like \\TSCLIENT\C\Users\bob\Desktop or whatever.

For instance, to get a sorted directory listing of the root of C on my redirected C drive I would type:

dir \\tsclient\C | sort

and this would output a sorted list of my remote C drive:

Z:\>dir \\tsclient\C | sort


               2 File(s)      4,642,774 bytes
              19 Dir(s)  144,403,460,096 bytes free
 Directory of \\tsclient\C
 Volume in drive \\tsclient\C is Windows8_OS