Mounted shares not visible in bash "Run as Administrator"

Wed Apr 9 14:09:55 GMT 2025

On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM Jim Garrison wrote:
> I just ran across this today. In a normal session all my remote mounts
> (NTFS, file server running Win10) are visible. In a session that is
> "Run as administrator", none of the mounts are visible.
>> Is there a configuration parameter that would make mounts visible in the
> administrator session? My Google-fu must be off today because I can't
> seem to find any references to this "issue".

This behavior, while counterintuitive, is expected. See this article:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3035277/
What this article is saying, in a convoluted way, is that mapped
drives between elevated and non-elevated sessions are not shared. You
can tell Windows that you want to share the mappings by setting the
EnableLinkedConnections registry value:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Subkey: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Value Name: EnableLinkedConnections
Value Data: 1
Data type: REG_DWORD
Changing this setting requires a reboot.
Bill