How can I run an EXE from a Network Share?

Question

I have the network share \server\me mounted as H:

There are executable in directories there.

I try to run them in cmd.exe

H:\somedir>program
Access is denied.

I've read that it is possibly related to the "Local Intranet" and "Trusted Sites" settings in the Security tab of "Internet Options". I've added file:///H:/ to "Trusted Sites" and this automatically translated to file:///*.server

I still get "Access is denied."

How can I run an EXE from a Network Share and/or a mapped network drive?

Double clicking the EXE in windows explorer first gives me the "publisher could not be verified" warning. After I click "Run" in that dialog, I get "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item."

Answer 1

• Go to your remote share directory from the machine that its installed on.

• Right-click on it.

• Select properties.

• Open security tab.

• Click advanced.

• Click change permissions.

• If you don't see your name in there, click add; if you do, then double-click on your user.

• Make sure, if full control and allow are not already checked, that at least the traverse, list, read attrs, read extended attrs, and read permissions are checked for your user.

• If you don't have permissions to check off these permissions, then you will need to gain admin access before making these adjustments, or at least gain ownership.

• After you have made these adjustments, delete and remap the network drive, put in the credentials that MATCH the credentials of the user account for which you just set the permissions.

• You will now have read permission when you share, so long as you are authenticated as that user the first time it asks you for the credentials.

Answer 2

Try using pushd command to refer to the directory path in remote machine.

For example, if your remote machine having the exe to be executed is called abc-pc and the folder containing the file is shared with name my-share, then in the cmd prompt of your machine you can type

c:>pushd \\abc-pc\my-share R:\

By using above method windows creates a temporary drive called R and you can run the exe present in R drive.

R:\runmyfile.exe

Like previous answer make sure you have access rights to run the file. This can be verified by logging on abc-pc as admin and verifying the properties on file. The properties like read, execute needs to have your username in it