Mapped Drives & Administrator Rights
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Here's something that's been perplexing me for a while: My user account on a Windows 10 PC has several mapped drives that access various servers on the LAN. I'm able to use them just fine. However, when I launch any program "As Admin", the mapped drives are not there, inside the program. It's as if I'm running as a different user when I launch programs as Admin. But the perplexing part is that my user account is a member of the Adminstrators group. So why doesn't it launch the programs as me, but with administrative rights? And if it's not launching the programs as me, then who is it launching them as?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Here's something that's been perplexing me for a while: My user account on a Windows 10 PC has several mapped drives that access various servers on the LAN. I'm able to use them just fine. However, when I launch any program "As Admin", the mapped drives are not there, inside the program. It's as if I'm running as a different user when I launch programs as Admin. But the perplexing part is that my user account is a member of the Adminstrators group. So why doesn't it launch the programs as me, but with administrative rights? And if it's not launching the programs as me, then who is it launching them as?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Here's something that's been perplexing me for a while: My user account on a Windows 10 PC has several mapped drives that access various servers on the LAN. I'm able to use them just fine. However, when I launch any program "As Admin", the mapped drives are not there, inside the program. It's as if I'm running as a different user when I launch programs as Admin. But the perplexing part is that my user account is a member of the Adminstrators group. So why doesn't it launch the programs as me, but with administrative rights? And if it's not launching the programs as me, then who is it launching them as?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Perhaps the behavior exhibited is similar to the behavior of a web browser that is either started with administrative rights or is started in the default mode. Both modes, by the way, can be present under control of the same user. But if you'll notice, as an administrative starter, the webbrowser that is opened by "you" will no longer allow any external application to access it's "space". In my experience all administrative web browsers open at the time of an external app requesting use of the default windows browser will throw a brick until all administrative browsers relinquish whatever control they have over a running instance. Not the same thing? Probably. Just seems like one could say "'Seen one vacuum behavior, 'seen 'em all".
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Interesting question. Seems just as perplexing to me. So I went looking. I think the following answers it? Mapped drives are not available - Windows Client | Microsoft Learn[^]
OK I see. I was assuming the cause was something other than what it really is. Thanks!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
