"A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated." appears on Command Prompt when trying to map a network drive on System Recovery Disk.

Problem

"A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated." appears on Command Prompt when trying to map a network drive on System Recovery Disk (SRD). Unable to map the network drive due to this error. (See Figure 1)

Error Message

A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated.

Figure 1

Cause

This message appears when using not "Server\Username" but "Username" as credential in order to map the network drive after booting from SRD that is created with ADK 10 version 2004 or Windows 10 version 2004.

Solution

Perform either 1 or 2.

1. Use ".\Username", "Server\Username" or "Domain\Username" as a credential. (See Figure 2)

Figure 2

2. Use "net use" after opening a command prompt from "Analyze" -> "Open Command Shell Window". (See Figure 3 and Figure 4)

For instance:

net use z: \\192.168.1.1\share /user:administrator
or
net use z: \\192.168.1.1\share /user:.\administrator

Figure 3

Figure 4