title: Error 53 - Network Path was not found
body: <p>first post of mine on this website, used to lurk but I've recently had a bit of a pickle with a batch-file </p>
  
  <p>I've been working as a small little simple auto connect batch-command which auto-connects my laptop to my schools shared network server but for some odd reason I am unable to connect as the command prompt prints <em>"System Error 53 has occurred The network path was not found."</em>
  If anyone could shed some light as to what I'm doing wrong would be much appreciated.</p>
  
  <pre><code>@echo off
  
  :: BatchGotAdmin
  :-------------------------------------
  REM  --&gt; Check for permissions
  IF "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" EQU "amd64" (
  &gt;nul 2&gt;&amp;1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\cacls.exe"     "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\config\system"
  ) ELSE (
  &gt;nul 2&gt;&amp;1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"
  )
  
  REM --&gt; If error flag set, we do not have admin.
  if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
  echo Requesting administrative privileges...
  goto UACPrompt
  ) else ( goto gotAdmin )
  
  :UACPrompt
  echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) &gt; "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
  set params = %*:"=""
  echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c ""%~s0"" %params%", "", "runas", 1 &gt;&gt; "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
  
  "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
  del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
  exit /B
  
  :gotAdmin
  pushd "%CD%"
  CD /D "%~dp0"
  :--------------------------------------
  setlocal
  :PROMPT
  SET /P AREYOUSURE="Are you sure you want to add School's shared documents? (Y/[N]):"
  IF /I "%AREYOUSURE%" NEQ "Y" GOTO END
  
  echo Please enter the Username you use to login to school computers
  set /p username=Enter your Username(SCHOOL USERNAME):
  
  echo Please enter the Password you use to login to school computers
  set /p password=Enter your Password(SCHOOL PASSWORD):
  
  net use Z: "\\server1\shared_documents$\" "%password%" /user:\Students\"%username%" /persistent:yes
  
  TIMEOUT /T 5 /NOBREAK
  
  :END
  endlocal
  </code></pre>