can not map \\wsl$\xxx\xxx path to a network drive

[ijesonchen]

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• Your Windows build number: (Type ver at a Windows Command Prompt)
  10.0.19013.1
  wsl2 with ubuntu 18.04

• What you're doing and what's happening: (Copy&paste the full set of specific command-line steps necessary to reproduce the behavior, and their output. Include screen shots if that helps demonstrate the problem.)

1. in explorer, mapping a network driver with path \wsl$\Ubuntu-18.04 succeeded,
2. in console, "dir \wsl$\Ubuntu-18.04\home" can display directory correctly.
3. in explorer mapping a network driver with path \wsl$\Ubuntu-18.04\home failed, with error windows can not access \wsl$\Ubuntu-18.04\home

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead:
  mapping \wsl$\Ubuntu-18.04\home a network driver should succeed

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[therealkenc]

Ref #3854. Could you please rephrase this as a step of Powershell CLI steps to be clear what you are doing.

[dustyjewett]

Not the author, but I was able to reproduce this. The general idea is that you can map to the root folder of a WSL, but not any deeper. The author is able to map \\wsl$\Ubuntu to a drive, but if you add the \home, the mapping fails.

I don't believe there's any way to map drives through powershell.

[therealkenc]

Alright.... for lack...

[Tulitomaatti]

I'm experiencing the same limitation on 10.0.19030.1 & wsl2 with Ubuntu 18.04.

[Vaelek]

Any progress on this? A year later and it still persists.