Salt-minion running as my user cant access network drive mounted by my user[BUG]

[asmith2011]

Description
I have mounted a network drive on my windows 2019 server. I did this through the gui with my user which is an administrator.
On my salt master i have tried to list the contents of this mounted drive simply using the this:
"salt MY_MINION cmd.run "ls W:/" shell=powershell"

This command reports
Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'W' does not exist.

This same drive does exist if i log onto the server as the same user salt-minion is running as.
Setup
(Please provide relevant configs and/or SLS files (be sure to remove sensitive info. There is no general set-up of Salt.)

Please be as specific as possible and give set-up details.

salt version: 3007.0 (Chlorine) on master and minion.
Master OS rocky linux 9
Minion OS Windows Server 2019

Steps to Reproduce the behavior
Mount a network drive on salt minion machine. Attempt to execute remote command from master on the minion using the mounted drive.
Expected behavior
Should be able to access the network drive.

Additional context
I also tried to create the network mount from cmd by executing a remote command from the master using the "net use" command. which gives the error:
System error 67 has occurred.

The network name cannot be found.

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[Timmeeh]

Is the salt-minion really running as the same user your GUI user? The default installs typically makes the salt-minion run via a service, as the SYSTEM user. This user does not always have access to resources created by regular users. You can verify by spawning a terminal as the SYSTEM user with Sysinternals' psexec tool.

[asmith2011]

It wasnt by default but i have changed the logon settings for salt to run as that same user that i log into the gui with. I have confirmed the minion is running as that user by doing a whoami command sent from the master using cmd.run

[Zpell82]

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/master/salt/modules/cmdmod.py#L4641-L4650C40

    This function does not process commands through a shell unless the
    ``python_shell`` argument is set to ``True``. This means that any
    shell-specific functionality such as 'echo' or the use of pipes,
    redirection or &&, should either be migrated to cmd.shell or have the
    python_shell=True flag set here.

    The use of ``python_shell=True`` means that the shell will accept _any_
    input including potentially malicious commands such as 'good_command;rm
    -rf /'.  Be absolutely certain that you have sanitized your input prior
    to using ``python_shell=True``.
   don't know if this is helpful or not 
   
   https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/master/salt/modules/cmdmod.py#L3838
   you also have the cmd.powershell option 

[asmith2011]

I have tried setting the shell to powershell but the behaviour is the same. im not sure why Python_shell would make a difference but trying to get to the drive didnt work with python_shell=true