In PowerShell, how can I determine if the current drive is a networked drive or not?

Question

I need to know, from within Powershell, if the current drive is a mapped drive or not.

Unfortunately, Get-PSDrive is not working "as expected":

PS:24 H:\temp
>get-psdrive  h

Name       Provider      Root      CurrentLocation
----       --------      ----      ---------------
H          FileSystem    H:\          temp

but in MS-Dos "net use" shows that H: is really a mapped network drive:

New connections will be remembered.

Status       Local     Remote                    Network
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OK           H:        \\spma1fp1\JARAVJ$        Microsoft Windows Network

The command completed successfully.

What I want to do is to get the root of the drive and show it in the prompt (see: Customizing PowerShell Prompt - Equivalent to CMD's $M$P$_$+$G?)

Answer 1

Use the .NET framework:

PS H:\> $x = new-object system.io.driveinfo("h:\")
PS H:\> $x.drivetype
Network