VMWare shared folder inaccessible with Administrator account

Question

VMWare Player runs a Windows 10 VM. I've shared a folder with this VM, setting "​Map as network drive in Windows guest" to TRUE.

I need to type a command (npm) as Administrator in the shared folder from the guest. However, there's a problem:

As lambda user:

net use
New connections will be remembered.

Status       Local     Remote                    Network
------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Z:        \\vmware-host\Shared Folders
                                                 Dossiers partagés VMware
The command completed successfully.

As Administrator:

net use
New connections will be remembered.

There are no entries in the list.

The Administrator account does not seem to know about the VMWare shared folder. Is there a way to access the shared folder as Administrator?

Solution 1

So, as said in the comments, typing net use Z: "\\vmware-host\Shared Folders" in an Administrator command prompt solved the problem.

Solution 2

Create a scheduled task that has the following as an action:

%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /k start /min net use Z: "\\vmware-host\Shared Folders"

Now you should be able to access the folder.

Comments

[Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007]

The Administrator user context doesn't know about the lambda user context's maps, you'll have to map it again in the Administrator context (open command prompt as Admin, run net use Z: \\vmware-host\Shared Folders).

[Admin]

net use Z: \\vmware-host\Shared Folders Z: has a remembered connection to \\vmware-host\Shared Folders. Do you want to overwrite the remembered connection? (Y/N) [Y]: y System error 67 has occurred. The network name cannot be found. Should I have answered No ?

[Admin]

Typed net use Z: "\\vmware-host\Shared Folders" (with quotes) and it worked.