Scenario: Win7 and Win10; I use a smart card which holds privileged (admin) and unprivileged (user) certs; would like to not need to log out of user and into admin to do something as simple as view restricted folders and their permissions etc.
Goal: While logged into my unprivileged account, invoke my admin certificate on the smart card to enable viewing/editing of group-restricted folders in explorer.
What I’ve tried: using the -smartcard argument with runas, using -user argument to specify my admin account; using -user along with the specific file path I’m attempting to access by pasting it after the explorer.exe (runas -user:adminacc explorer.exe \server\drivename); using both of those arguments together
Results: opens explorer, but explorer does not recognize e as admin at the point of clicking on the shared drive and attempting to open the targeted folder; when using both together it gives an error if I try to specifiy the folder path as I have done while solely utilizing the -user argument
Anyone mind pointing me towards the right direction? I’m getting to the point of feeling like I am investing more time than the return I’d potentially get if/when I figure this out. Thank you for any guidance you can provide.