The system cannot find the specified drive in Jenkins

Question

I want to copy some files from a network shared drive (mounted at my local machine as drive Z). I have written a Batch file to copy the contents of Z drive into my local drive.

Answer 1

If you don't want to use Jenkins-plugins or schedule-Tasks here is a "groovy" way:

By Hand:

You can use the Groovy Script-Console provided by Jenkins>Manage Jenkins>Script Console and execute the command to map the network-drive within the Jenkins-service. (Must be repeated, once the Jenkins-service is stopped)

Automation:

Write your Groovy commands to a file named "init.groovy" and place it in your JENKINS_HOME-directory. So the network-drive gets mapped on Jenkins-startup.

Groovy Commands - Windows:

Check available network drives using the Script-Console:

println "net use".execute().getText()

Your init.groovy would look like this:

def mapdrive = "net use z: \\\\YOUR_REMOTE_MACHINE\\SHARED_FOLDERNAME"
mapdrive.execute()