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After some experimentation, I was able to get it to work. I am posting my solution in the event that it will help someone else. There were two things I was doing wrong: 1. I did not provide a redirect for the input. Seems you need to redirect error, input, and output even if you are not using the data. 2. I was using WaitForExit in the wrong context. Here is the code that works: info.StartInfo.FileName = ("net.exe") info.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False info.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = True info.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = True info.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True info.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True info.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden info.StartInfo.Arguments = "use z: \\server\share " & My.Settings.rbsSrvPwd & " /user:" & My.Settings.rbsSrvUsr Process.Start(info.StartInfo) If anyone sees any flaws please let me know.

Hello All, I am developing an application that will run continuously in the background on a users workstation. This application will automatically transfer files from the local machine to a remote server and vise versa. It checks for the files on a timed interval. I have two problems with this application that I am having trouble figuring out: The first problem is that the cmd.exe shell pops up on the screen every time it maps the drive. The application needs to be completely 'invisible' to the user. I cannot have something popping up every several minutes while they are trying to work. The second issue is that I do not want to let a continuous connection to the remote server so I have mapped a network drive to the remote server using process.start. I have provided administrative credentials when creating the drive. Local users do not have permission to connect to the remote server. Also, I only want to create the drive when necessary, and then close it when the current process is finished with it. The drive mapping shows in My Computer when I check for it. However, when the code tries to access the drive to transfer the files, I get an error and the program shuts down. The error is: system.unauthorizedaccess, eventtype: clr20r3. I am assuming this has something to do with the user credentials, so I tried creating the mapped drive using the same command lines in my code using the command prompt. I was able to successfully create the mapped drive and access it under the local user account Any ideas/help would greatly be appreciated. This is the section of code that I am using to create the drive: Try srvConn = New System.Diagnostics.Process srvConn.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False srvConn.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = True srvConn.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True srvConn.StartInfo.FileName = ("net.exe") srvConn.StartInfo.Arguments = "use z: \\server\share" & " " & My.Settings.rbsSrvPwd & "/user:" & My.Settings.rbsSrvUsr srvConn.Start() srvConn.WaitForExit() Catch ex As Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.MalformedLineException Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FileSystem.WriteAllText(My.Settings.logPoll, "Error: " & ex.Message & " occurred in rbsSrvConnection:rbsConnOpen" & vbCrLf, True) End Try