How to Add NetShares on WinPE Recovery Media?
Hi,
I tried to build a WinPE Recovery Media on an USB-Stick used Recovery Media Builder with including some Drivers for my NIC. Now I'm able to Boot from USB-Stick and starting Acronis, but I miss a function to add all the necessary NetShares to my backup images on NAS.
So I tried to edit the startnet.cmd within the WinPE ISO an add some net use commands. Now I see in the Acronis cmd window my shared folders. But within Acronis I found my share disconnected and can'nt use it:
If I want to restore a backup from NAS, I have to type in the correct path to the shared folder and fill in the credentials to acces it, even if the share is still available in the cmd window, in the Acronis window the network folders are empty.
How can we adjust the WinPE Recovery Media to start with the needed network folders and not always have to known the exact path to shares and type in?
Many thanks for your hints
Sigi
Hi Vasily,
thanks for your commend, but it's not clear to me. I think WinPE can use mapped drives, but Acronis didn't implement it well. Let me show you some strange points on my WinPE recovery Media.
Let us boot with it. The cmd will run startnet.cmd and start "trueimage_starter.exe". In the cmd we type ipconfig and we see our IPv4 Adress (and much more ...). But why didn't Acronis Bootable Agent show us our IP-Adress?
After starting Acronis we use A43 Explorer and trying the "Map Network Drive" or "Disconnect Network Drive". But really nothing happens, is this Menu not implemented? No window pop up, nor my (disconnected) shares can be connect/disconnect at this point.
So we try some net use commands and at this point I'm very wonderingly. First, we use the cmd which was startet with WinPE and map our shares. Secondly, we start via Acronis Menu a new cmd and type the same net use commands. Now we compare both cmd's and wondering ... Why doesn't show this both cmd windows not the same mapped drives, are we not in the same user context?
CMD1 (first cmd) show T: and U: as unavailable, but CMD2 (started with Acronis Menu) show at the same time both drives as OK ?
After this experiment we found in A43 a new situation, some of our shares are connected, some of them (V:) seeming still not connectet. Remember drive V: for later use!
Now we try to find our previously made backups and trying to use our drive letter V: for searching on (disconnected?) mapped drive. At this time, Acronis is able to use my mapped drive V:\
So the main questions for me are :
Why does the second cmd (started with Acronis) works different as the cmd started with WinPE?
Why is the menu "Map Network Drive" or "Disconnect Network Drive" without function?
Why have we to use "net use" commands after Acronis started to make our mapped drives available for Acronis, even if the are still connected before Acronis started?
Hope you can bring some clarification to me
Sigi