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Sharepoint persistent path for PowerShell

I am trying to map the path to a SharePoint document library in a persistent way. The weird thing is that this works great:

$Sharepoint = '\\domain.net\stuff\Documents\Folders - Permission matrix'
New-PSDrive -Name P -Root $Sharepoint -PSProvider FileSystem -Credential $Credentials

But this doesn't work:

New-PSDrive -Persist -Name P -Root $Sharepoint -PSProvider FileSystem -Credential $Credentials
New-PSDrive : The network resource type is not correct
At line:1 char:1
+ New-PSDrive -Persist -Name P -Root $Sharepoint -PSProvider FileSystem -Credentia ...

The teams both use the same PSProvider

, but one is persistent and the other is not. How can I get this permanent without going back to net use

?

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I ran into this issue a few weeks ago in a script that mysteriously stopped working while I was developing it, it seems to be a Windows 66 bug, not Powershell as described here

Here is an alternative to using the web using credentials

# map drive using credentials
(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).MapNetworkDrive("$LocalDrive","\\$computer\$drive",$false,$($credentials.username),$($credentials.GetNetworkCredential().password))


I usually use PSDrive like this

    # discover and delete
    if (Get-PSDrive -Name Results -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { Remove-PSDrive -Name Results -Scope Global | Out-Null }

    # create using credentials
    if ((New-PSDrive -Name Results -PSProvider FileSystem -Root "\\server\share" -Credential $Credentials -Scope Global -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null)  { $WSHShell.popup("You do not have access to the results repository",0,"",0) | Out-Null }

    # call from a separate function
    (Get-PSDrive -Name Results).root

Maybe just a reboot will fix the problem, because today I can't recreate the problem.

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